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-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $8,136 / month
Westchester County$8,136
Fort Hood$2,769
Fort Rucker$2,760
Jacksonville$2,757
Raleigh$2,757
County Cost Group 770$2,751
Mobile$2,751
Columbia$2,745
Fort Wayne$2,745
Malmstrom SFB$2,745
Brownsville$2,742
Akron$2,736
Whiteman AFB$2,736
Ogden$2,733
Robins AFB$2,730
Wright-Patterson AFB$2,724
Paducah$2,712
Grand Forks$2,703
Wilkes-Barre$2,697
Lincoln$2,688
China Lake$2,676
Terre Haute$2,676
Youngstown$1,839
Akron is #235 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $6,297 a month —
$75,564 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 Westchester County at O-6
is worth $5,400 a month — about 360 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.