PCS compareChina Lake · W-1 · with dep. · $1,785/mo
China Lake$1,785/mo · $21,420/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.
W-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,472 / month
San Francisco$5,472
County Cost Group 710$1,836
Frankfort$1,836
Lubbock$1,830
County Cost Group 700$1,818
Fallon NAS$1,809
County Cost Group 690$1,803
Fort Riley$1,803
Huntington$1,797
County Cost Group 680$1,791
Charleston$1,785
China Lake$1,785
County Cost Group 670$1,782
Montgomery$1,773
County Cost Group 660$1,770
Saginaw$1,767
County Cost Group 650$1,761
Fort Rucker$1,761
County Cost Group 640$1,752
County Cost Group 630$1,746
Fort Leonard Wood$1,740
County Cost Group 620$1,737
Youngstown$1,350
China Lake is #296 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 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 San Francisco at W-1
is worth $3,687 a month — about 20 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.