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-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,172 / month
San Francisco$5,172
Chattanooga$2,043
Louisville$2,031
Rapid City$2,022
Kansas City$2,019
Battle Creek$2,013
El Centro$2,013
County Cost Group 800$2,007
Abilene$1,989
Yakima$1,983
Fort Wayne$1,977
Boise$1,974
Helena$1,968
New Orleans$1,968
Jackson$1,956
Rock Island$1,956
Greenville$1,950
Roanoke$1,941
County Cost Group 790$1,938
Davis-Monthan AFB$1,938
Fort Gordon$1,929
Columbus$1,926
Youngstown$1,218
Boise is #191 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,954 a month —
$47,448 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Boise0 – $2,802 / month
E-1$1,842
E-2$1,842
E-3$1,842
E-4$1,842
E-5$1,926
E-6$2,277
E-7$2,310
E-8$2,346
E-9$2,433
W-1$2,295
W-2$2,325
W-3$2,373
W-4$2,457
W-5$2,565
O-1E$2,313
O-2E$2,364
O-3E$2,475
O-1$1,974
O-2$2,274
O-3$2,370
O-4$2,598
O-5$2,763
O-6$2,784
O-7$2,802
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Boise to San Francisco at O-1
is worth $3,198 a month — about 11 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.