PCS compareCounty Cost Group 550 · O-1 · with dep. · $1,395/mo
County Cost Group 550$1,395/mo · $16,740/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.
Verified official history. With-dependents rate shown; use the dependency switch above for its exact comparison.
COUNTY COST GROUP
This is not one installation. DTMO groups counties without a dedicated base into a "County Cost Group". The rate applies to any member whose duty location falls in one of the ZIP codes listed above.
O-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,172 / month
San Francisco$5,172
Paducah$1,434
County Cost Group 580$1,425
Wichita$1,422
Hattiesburg$1,419
Columbia$1,413
County Cost Group 570$1,413
County Cost Group 560$1,404
Albany$1,401
Cannon AFB$1,401
Lake Charles$1,398
County Cost Group 550$1,395
Stevens Point$1,389
County Cost Group 540$1,386
County Cost Group 530$1,380
County Cost Group 520$1,377
Fort Riley$1,377
County Cost Group 510$1,371
Alexandria$1,344
Meridian$1,329
Fort Chaffee$1,320
Altus AFB$1,299
Youngstown$1,218
County Cost Group 550 is #322 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,954 a month —
$47,448 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at County Cost Group 5500 – $2,241 / month
E-1$1,251
E-2$1,251
E-3$1,251
E-4$1,251
E-5$1,353
E-6$1,650
E-7$1,716
E-8$1,788
E-9$1,899
W-1$1,668
W-2$1,746
W-3$1,839
W-4$1,920
W-5$2,025
O-1E$1,728
O-2E$1,824
O-3E$1,935
O-1$1,395
O-2$1,647
O-3$1,836
O-4$2,055
O-5$2,214
O-6$2,229
O-7$2,241
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from County Cost Group 550 to San Francisco at O-1
is worth $3,777 a month — about 15 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.