Pick a station below to see what the move is worth a year, before tax.
Orders rarely arrive as one option — add several and rank them.
Comparison uses with-dependents rates. Differences are annual and untaxed.
Rate protection is not applied — a PCS resets you to the new location's current-year rate.
O-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,172 / month
San Francisco$5,172
Mountain Home AFB$1,680
Oklahoma City$1,677
Bismarck$1,674
Topeka$1,662
Whiteman AFB$1,656
Malmstrom SFB$1,641
Camp Lejeune$1,635
St Mary And Terrebonne$1,635
County Cost Group 740$1,632
Holloman AFB$1,632
Akron$1,629
Fallon NAS$1,629
Johnson City$1,623
Lafayette$1,623
Goodfellow AFB$1,617
Sioux Falls$1,617
Gulfport$1,614
Peoria$1,614
Minot AFB$1,605
County Cost Group 730$1,602
Fort Rucker$1,602
Youngstown$1,218
Akron is #263 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,954 a month —
$47,448 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Akron0 – $2,751 / month
E-1$1,536
E-2$1,536
E-3$1,536
E-4$1,536
E-5$1,581
E-6$1,926
E-7$1,950
E-8$1,962
E-9$2,094
W-1$1,947
W-2$1,956
W-3$1,980
W-4$2,136
W-5$2,337
O-1E$1,953
O-2E$1,971
O-3E$2,169
O-1$1,629
O-2$1,923
O-3$1,977
O-4$2,403
O-5$2,715
O-6$2,736
O-7$2,751
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Akron to San Francisco at O-1
is worth $3,543 a month — about 12 promotions at this grade.
Where you are stationed outweighs rank, by a lot.
What the rate table does not tell you
01
“With dependents” is a dependency
status, not a marital status. A single member paying child support can be authorized
BAH-Diff; a married dual-military couple with no children is not automatically the
with-dependents rate for both. If your situation is unusual, your finance office decides —
not this table.
02
O-8, O-9 and O-10 draw the same BAH as
O-7. The table stops there for a reason, not because it is missing rows.
03
This is CONUS BAH only. Overseas is OHA,
which works differently — it reimburses actual rent up to a cap, with separate utility and
move-in allowances. Alaska and Hawaii are BAH; Germany, Japan and Korea are OHA.