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-4 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,067 / month
New York City$5,067
County Cost Group 750$1,521
Fargo$1,521
Grand Forks$1,518
Gulfport$1,509
Peoria$1,506
Moody AFB$1,503
Topeka$1,503
White Sands MR$1,503
Bismarck$1,500
Seymour Johnson AFB$1,500
Beaumont$1,488
County Cost Group 740$1,476
Champaign$1,467
Johnson City$1,467
Goodfellow AFB$1,455
Erie$1,452
Lafayette$1,449
Whiteman AFB$1,449
County Cost Group 730$1,446
Fort Rucker$1,440
Morgantown$1,440
Youngstown$1,134
Beaumont is #267 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,933 a month —
$47,196 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Beaumont0 – $2,589 / month
E-1$1,488
E-2$1,488
E-3$1,488
E-4$1,488
E-5$1,518
E-6$1,917
E-7$1,941
E-8$1,950
E-9$2,028
W-1$1,938
W-2$1,947
W-3$1,959
W-4$2,064
W-5$2,235
O-1E$1,944
O-2E$1,953
O-3E$2,091
O-1$1,572
O-2$1,914
O-3$1,956
O-4$2,289
O-5$2,553
O-6$2,571
O-7$2,589
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Beaumont to New York City at E-4
is worth $3,579 a month — about 119 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.