PCS compareColumbus AFB · O-2 · with dep. · $1,992/mo
Columbus AFB$1,992/mo · $23,904/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.
O-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,451 / month
San Francisco$5,451
Tallahassee$2,058
Bangor$2,049
Fort Bragg$2,046
Morehead$2,043
Fayetteville$2,037
Shreveport$2,025
Sioux Falls$2,022
Marquette$2,007
Grand Forks$2,001
Scott AFB$1,995
Columbus AFB$1,992
County Cost Group 760$1,992
Lexington$1,992
Lansing$1,980
Champaign$1,977
Minot AFB$1,977
Fort Benning$1,974
Bloomington$1,953
Seymour Johnson AFB$1,947
County Cost Group 750$1,944
Sumter$1,944
Youngstown$1,332
Columbus AFB is #242 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 Columbus AFB0 – $2,526 / month
E-1$1,302
E-2$1,302
E-3$1,302
E-4$1,302
E-5$1,398
E-6$1,998
E-7$2,067
E-8$2,136
E-9$2,232
W-1$2,019
W-2$2,094
W-3$2,184
W-4$2,250
W-5$2,337
O-1E$2,076
O-2E$2,169
O-3E$2,265
O-1$1,476
O-2$1,992
O-3$2,181
O-4$2,361
O-5$2,493
O-6$2,511
O-7$2,526
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Columbus AFB to San Francisco at O-2
is worth $3,459 a month — about 18 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.