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.
E-8 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,333 / month
Westchester County$6,333
Coastal Maine$2,826
Corvallis$2,826
Fairbanks$2,814
Dahlgren$2,811
Asheville$2,772
Spokane$2,772
County Cost Group 830$2,766
Reno$2,766
Nashville$2,754
Twenty Nine Palms MCB$2,751
Atlanta$2,739
Fort Collins$2,739
St. Louis$2,733
Detroit$2,730
Richmond$2,727
Buffalo$2,718
Savannah$2,718
Helena$2,715
Humboldt County$2,715
Patuxent River$2,712
Syracuse$2,709
Anniston$1,638
Atlanta is #127 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,695 a month —
$56,340 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Atlanta0 – $3,006 / month
E-1$2,259
E-2$2,259
E-3$2,259
E-4$2,259
E-5$2,388
E-6$2,709
E-7$2,730
E-8$2,739
E-9$2,757
W-1$2,727
W-2$2,736
W-3$2,748
W-4$2,772
W-5$2,841
O-1E$2,733
O-2E$2,742
O-3E$2,784
O-1$2,433
O-2$2,706
O-3$2,745
O-4$2,859
O-5$2,964
O-6$2,985
O-7$3,006
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Atlanta to Westchester County at E-8
is worth $3,594 a month — about 200 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.