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-1E with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,931 / month
Westchester County$5,931
Ketchikan$3,060
Ballston Spa$3,021
Baltimore$3,009
Fort Myers Beach$3,006
JB Lewis-McChord$3,006
Outer Banks$3,003
Philadelphia$3,003
Sacramento$3,000
Kodiak Island$2,991
Orlando$2,985
Astoria$2,979
Port Angeles$2,955
County Cost Group 860$2,940
Fort Pierce$2,934
Traverse City$2,916
Eglin AFB$2,910
Milwaukee$2,910
Patrick SFB$2,910
Whidbey Island$2,901
Bridgeport$2,895
Oxford$2,886
Youngstown$1,521
Astoria is #90 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,410 a month —
$52,920 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Astoria0 – $3,729 / month
E-1$1,914
E-2$1,914
E-3$1,914
E-4$1,914
E-5$2,055
E-6$2,796
E-7$2,949
E-8$3,114
E-9$3,291
W-1$2,817
W-2$3,015
W-3$3,219
W-4$3,318
W-5$3,444
O-1E$2,979
O-2E$3,189
O-3E$3,339
O-1$2,145
O-2$2,787
O-3$3,213
O-4$3,480
O-5$3,672
O-6$3,702
O-7$3,729
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Astoria to Westchester County at O-1E
is worth $2,952 a month — about 14 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.