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-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $8,064 / month
Westchester County$8,064
Chicago$4,086
Juneau$4,074
Quantico$4,065
Stockton$4,047
Santa Fe$4,023
Fort G. G. Meade$4,014
Ketchikan$4,002
Riverside$4,002
Madison$3,993
Hampden County$3,978
Cape May$3,969
Willow Grove$3,939
Everett$3,936
Vallejo$3,927
New London$3,906
Brunswick$3,894
County Cost Group 870$3,882
Edwards AFB$3,840
Kodiak Island$3,831
Milwaukee$3,831
Fort Detrick$3,804
Youngstown$1,827
Cape May is #67 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $6,237 a month —
$74,844 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Cape May0 – $4,032 / month
E-1$2,523
E-2$2,523
E-3$2,523
E-4$2,523
E-5$2,754
E-6$3,072
E-7$3,114
E-8$3,159
E-9$3,312
W-1$3,093
W-2$3,132
W-3$3,189
W-4$3,360
W-5$3,570
O-1E$3,117
O-2E$3,177
O-3E$3,390
O-1$2,799
O-2$3,069
O-3$3,186
O-4$3,639
O-5$3,969
O-6$4,002
O-7$4,032
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Cape May to Westchester County at O-5
is worth $4,095 a month — about 124 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.