PCS compareChina Lake · E-4 · with dep. · $1,524/mo
China Lake$1,524/mo · $18,288/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-4 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,067 / month
New York City$5,067
Mountain Home AFB$1,563
Yuma$1,551
Oklahoma City$1,542
Tulsa$1,542
Cheyenne$1,539
Malmstrom SFB$1,539
Akron$1,536
Scott AFB$1,536
Wright-Patterson AFB$1,533
St Mary And Terrebonne$1,527
China Lake$1,524
County Cost Group 750$1,521
Fargo$1,521
Grand Forks$1,518
Gulfport$1,509
Peoria$1,506
Moody AFB$1,503
Topeka$1,503
White Sands MR$1,503
Bismarck$1,500
Seymour Johnson AFB$1,500
Youngstown$1,134
China Lake is #256 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,933 a month —
$47,196 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at China Lake0 – $2,694 / month
E-1$1,524
E-2$1,524
E-3$1,524
E-4$1,524
E-5$1,563
E-6$1,767
E-7$1,905
E-8$2,058
E-9$2,238
W-1$1,785
W-2$1,968
W-3$2,157
W-4$2,268
W-5$2,403
O-1E$1,932
O-2E$2,130
O-3E$2,289
O-1$1,596
O-2$1,764
O-3$2,154
O-4$2,445
O-5$2,658
O-6$2,676
O-7$2,694
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from China Lake to New York City at E-4
is worth $3,543 a month — about 91 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.