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
Morgantown$2,613
Fort Bragg$2,610
Pensacola$2,610
Huntsville$2,607
Lubbock$2,604
Little Rock$2,598
Sault Ste Marie$2,595
Fort Leavenworth$2,589
Moody AFB$2,589
Sumter$2,589
Columbia$2,583
County Cost Group 750$2,583
Charlotte$2,577
Montgomery$2,565
St Mary And Terrebonne$2,565
Indianapolis$2,559
Beaumont$2,553
Camp Lejeune$2,553
Davis-Monthan AFB$2,550
Albany$2,532
County Cost Group 740$2,520
Youngstown$1,827
Columbia is #266 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 Columbia0 – $2,619 / month
E-1$1,284
E-2$1,284
E-3$1,284
E-4$1,284
E-5$1,377
E-6$1,623
E-7$1,803
E-8$2,001
E-9$2,199
W-1$1,644
W-2$1,884
W-3$2,127
W-4$2,226
W-5$2,352
O-1E$1,839
O-2E$2,091
O-3E$2,247
O-1$1,413
O-2$1,620
O-3$2,118
O-4$2,391
O-5$2,583
O-6$2,604
O-7$2,619
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Columbia to Westchester County at O-5
is worth $5,481 a month — about 261 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.