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-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,454 / month
San Francisco$5,454
Memphis$2,319
Raleigh$2,319
Eastern Shore$2,313
County Cost Group 800$2,283
Boise$2,277
Lemoore NAS$2,277
Louisville$2,274
State College$2,274
Eastern Panhandle$2,253
Jacksonville$2,241
Columbus$2,238
Rock Island$2,238
Pensacola$2,235
Ogden$2,229
Provo$2,229
Cheyenne$2,217
Corpus Christi$2,217
Coos Bay$2,214
Rapid City$2,211
County Cost Group 790$2,208
Des Moines$2,208
Youngstown$1,335
Columbus is #189 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 Columbus0 – $2,991 / month
E-1$1,782
E-2$1,782
E-3$1,782
E-4$1,782
E-5$1,875
E-6$2,238
E-7$2,364
E-8$2,496
E-9$2,640
W-1$2,259
W-2$2,418
W-3$2,583
W-4$2,664
W-5$2,766
O-1E$2,385
O-2E$2,556
O-3E$2,679
O-1$1,926
O-2$2,235
O-3$2,577
O-4$2,793
O-5$2,949
O-6$2,973
O-7$2,991
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Columbus to San Francisco at E-6
is worth $3,216 a month — about 26 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.