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-3 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,067 / month
New York City$5,067
Greensboro$1,680
Wilkes-Barre$1,677
Huntsville$1,668
Fort Bliss$1,665
College Station$1,662
Fayetteville$1,662
Fort Hood$1,662
State College$1,656
Corpus Christi$1,644
Lincoln$1,641
Coos Bay$1,635
Fort Benning$1,635
County Cost Group 770$1,632
Marquette$1,626
Auburn$1,617
Waco$1,617
Lansing$1,611
Montgomery$1,605
Des Moines$1,593
Camp Lejeune$1,578
Fallon NAS$1,578
Youngstown$1,134
Coos Bay is #231 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,933 a month —
$47,196 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Coos Bay0 – $3,162 / month
E-1$1,635
E-2$1,635
E-3$1,635
E-4$1,635
E-5$1,779
E-6$2,214
E-7$2,391
E-8$2,583
E-9$2,772
W-1$2,238
W-2$2,469
W-3$2,706
W-4$2,796
W-5$2,910
O-1E$2,427
O-2E$2,670
O-3E$2,814
O-1$1,839
O-2$2,211
O-3$2,697
O-4$2,943
O-5$3,117
O-6$3,141
O-7$3,162
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
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.