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-4 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $7,470 / month
Westchester County$7,470
State College$2,928
Chattanooga$2,916
County Cost Group 810$2,916
Panama City$2,913
Bloomington$2,910
Charleston$2,904
Fort Stewart$2,904
Cleveland$2,889
Tallahassee$2,883
Cincinnati$2,868
Atlanta$2,859
Carlisle Barracks$2,853
El Centro$2,847
New Orleans$2,847
Jackson$2,841
Hampton$2,835
Volusia County$2,826
Eastern Panhandle$2,796
Columbus$2,793
County Cost Group 800$2,793
Fort Campbell$2,793
Youngstown$1,809
Atlanta is #164 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $5,661 a month —
$67,932 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 O-4
is worth $4,611 a month — about 44 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.