PCS compareAsheville · W-1 · with dep. · $2,589/mo
Asheville$2,589/mo · $31,068/yr
CURRENT
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.
W-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,472 / month
San Francisco$5,472
Nashville$2,694
County Cost Group 840$2,673
St. Louis$2,673
Knoxville$2,670
Savannah$2,670
Richmond$2,646
Charleston$2,634
Pittsburgh$2,625
Detroit$2,601
County Cost Group 830$2,598
Asheville$2,589
Brunswick$2,583
Elizabeth City$2,577
Norfolk$2,574
Spokane$2,574
Buffalo$2,571
Twenty Nine Palms MCB$2,571
Patuxent River$2,562
Helena$2,556
Fort Collins$2,550
Birmingham$2,547
Youngstown$1,350
Asheville is #127 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,122 a month —
$49,464 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Asheville0 – $3,780 / month
E-1$2,052
E-2$2,052
E-3$2,052
E-4$2,052
E-5$2,214
E-6$2,571
E-7$2,667
E-8$2,772
E-9$2,979
W-1$2,589
W-2$2,709
W-3$2,838
W-4$3,033
W-5$3,270
O-1E$2,682
O-2E$2,817
O-3E$3,069
O-1$2,265
O-2$2,568
O-3$2,835
O-4$3,351
O-5$3,723
O-6$3,753
O-7$3,780
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Asheville to San Francisco at W-1
is worth $2,883 a month — about 24 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.