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
Fort Campbell$3,006
County Cost Group 800$2,997
Myrtle Beach$2,982
El Centro$2,976
Battle Creek$2,973
Louisville$2,973
Volusia County$2,970
Atlanta$2,964
Corpus Christi$2,964
Wichita Fls$2,955
Columbus$2,949
Grand Rapids$2,946
Fort Knox$2,943
Auburn$2,934
Scott AFB$2,928
Ocala$2,922
Cheyenne$2,916
Kings Bay$2,916
Fort Carson$2,913
Grand Haven$2,913
County Cost Group 790$2,907
Youngstown$1,827
Columbus is #180 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 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 Westchester County at O-5
is worth $5,115 a month — about 213 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.