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-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,472 / month
San Francisco$5,472
Providence$3,477
Newport$3,474
JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst$3,465
Santa Fe$3,435
Willow Grove$3,420
Worcester$3,411
San Bernardino$3,396
Warrenton$3,396
Indian Head Navordsta$3,393
Juneau$3,375
Boulder$3,363
Hartford$3,351
Atlantic City$3,312
Fort G. G. Meade$3,297
Everett$3,264
Annapolis$3,246
Sitka$3,231
County Cost Group 880$3,222
Quantico$3,192
Edwards AFB$3,177
Beale AFB$3,147
Youngstown$1,350
Boulder is #56 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,122 a month —
$49,464 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Boulder0 – $4,287 / month
E-1$2,565
E-2$2,565
E-3$2,565
E-4$2,565
E-5$2,754
E-6$3,342
E-7$3,477
E-8$3,621
E-9$3,795
W-1$3,363
W-2$3,537
W-3$3,714
W-4$3,825
W-5$3,963
O-1E$3,501
O-2E$3,687
O-3E$3,846
O-1$2,829
O-2$3,336
O-3$3,711
O-4$4,005
O-5$4,218
O-6$4,254
O-7$4,287
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Boulder to San Francisco at W-1
is worth $2,109 a month — about 12 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.