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
Fort Worth$2,454
Tallahassee$2,454
Cleveland$2,451
Grand Rapids$2,433
Ocala$2,424
Eastern Panhandle$2,421
Jackson$2,418
Corpus Christi$2,412
Rapid City$2,409
Lemoore NAS$2,406
Bangor$2,403
Fort Campbell$2,400
Cheyenne$2,388
Eastern Shore$2,382
Albuquerque$2,379
Des Moines$2,379
County Cost Group 790$2,376
Raleigh$2,373
Duluth$2,364
Louisville$2,364
Fort Knox$2,352
Anniston$1,638
Bangor is #189 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 Bangor0 – $2,853 / month
E-1$1,728
E-2$1,728
E-3$1,728
E-4$1,728
E-5$1,893
E-6$2,052
E-7$2,217
E-8$2,403
E-9$2,568
W-1$2,067
W-2$2,292
W-3$2,523
W-4$2,586
W-5$2,667
O-1E$2,250
O-2E$2,487
O-3E$2,598
O-1$1,920
O-2$2,049
O-3$2,514
O-4$2,688
O-5$2,814
O-6$2,835
O-7$2,853
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Bangor to Westchester County at E-8
is worth $3,930 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.