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-2E with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,564 / month
Westchester County$6,564
Detroit$2,763
Buffalo$2,757
Helena$2,757
Patuxent River$2,754
Richmond$2,751
St. Louis$2,751
Eugene$2,748
Atlanta$2,742
Rochester$2,739
Savannah$2,736
Barstow$2,730
Salt Lake City$2,718
County Cost Group 820$2,715
Charleston$2,712
Panama City$2,691
Houston$2,688
Salem$2,688
Norfolk$2,685
Yakima$2,682
Gainesville$2,676
Coos Bay$2,670
Anniston$1,671
Barstow is #140 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,893 a month —
$58,716 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Barstow0 – $3,189 / month
E-1$1,890
E-2$1,890
E-3$1,890
E-4$1,890
E-5$2,001
E-6$2,430
E-7$2,547
E-8$2,673
E-9$2,814
W-1$2,451
W-2$2,598
W-3$2,751
W-4$2,838
W-5$2,946
O-1E$2,568
O-2E$2,730
O-3E$2,856
O-1$2,058
O-2$2,427
O-3$2,748
O-4$2,976
O-5$3,144
O-6$3,168
O-7$3,189
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Barstow to Westchester County at O-2E
is worth $3,834 a month — about 30 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.