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-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,036 / month
Westchester County$6,036
County Cost Group 710$1,920
Springfield$1,917
Terre Haute$1,917
Oklahoma City$1,914
County Cost Group 700$1,902
Lubbock$1,902
Holloman AFB$1,896
County Cost Group 690$1,887
Fort Polk$1,887
Sparta$1,887
Columbia$1,884
Fort Leonard Wood$1,884
County Cost Group 680$1,875
Fort Riley$1,872
County Cost Group 670$1,863
County Cost Group 660$1,851
Huntington$1,848
Montgomery$1,845
County Cost Group 650$1,842
Gulfport$1,836
St Mary And Terrebonne$1,836
Youngstown$1,560
Columbia is #296 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,476 a month —
$53,712 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 W-2
is worth $4,152 a month — about 17 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.