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.
W-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,036 / month
Westchester County$6,036
Morgantown$1,974
China Lake$1,968
County Cost Group 730$1,968
Topeka$1,968
Little Rock$1,965
Moody AFB$1,962
Akron$1,956
Paducah$1,956
Peoria$1,953
Yuma$1,950
Beaumont$1,947
Sault Ste Marie$1,947
County Cost Group 720$1,944
Lafayette$1,944
Springfield$1,932
Laughlin AFB$1,923
County Cost Group 710$1,920
Springfield$1,917
Terre Haute$1,917
Oklahoma City$1,914
County Cost Group 700$1,902
Youngstown$1,560
Beaumont is #280 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,476 a month —
$53,712 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 Westchester County at W-2
is worth $4,089 a month — about 341 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.