PCS compareCharleston · E-6 · with dep. · $1,764/mo
Charleston$1,764/mo · $21,168/yr
CURRENT
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-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,454 / month
San Francisco$5,454
County Cost Group 710$1,818
Frankfort$1,815
Lubbock$1,812
County Cost Group 700$1,800
Fallon NAS$1,788
County Cost Group 690$1,785
Fort Riley$1,782
Huntington$1,779
County Cost Group 680$1,773
China Lake$1,767
Charleston$1,764
County Cost Group 670$1,764
Montgomery$1,758
County Cost Group 660$1,752
Saginaw$1,749
County Cost Group 650$1,743
Fort Rucker$1,743
County Cost Group 640$1,734
County Cost Group 630$1,725
Fort Leonard Wood$1,722
County Cost Group 620$1,719
Youngstown$1,335
Charleston is #297 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,119 a month —
$49,428 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Charleston0 – $2,496 / month
E-1$1,308
E-2$1,308
E-3$1,308
E-4$1,308
E-5$1,404
E-6$1,764
E-7$1,800
E-8$1,833
E-9$1,956
W-1$1,785
W-2$1,812
W-3$1,863
W-4$1,992
W-5$2,157
O-1E$1,803
O-2E$1,851
O-3E$2,016
O-1$1,452
O-2$1,761
O-3$1,860
O-4$2,208
O-5$2,463
O-6$2,481
O-7$2,496
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Charleston to San Francisco at E-6
is worth $3,690 a month — about 103 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.