PCS compareCounty Cost Group 580 · W-1 · with dep. · $1,698/mo
County Cost Group 580$1,698/mo · $20,376/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.
W-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,472 / month
San Francisco$5,472
Fort Leonard Wood$1,740
County Cost Group 620$1,737
County Cost Group 610$1,728
Stevens Point$1,728
County Cost Group 600$1,722
Laughlin AFB$1,722
County Cost Group 590$1,710
Wichita$1,710
Fort Chaffee$1,701
Alexandria$1,698
County Cost Group 580$1,698
Erie$1,695
County Cost Group 570$1,686
County Cost Group 560$1,677
County Cost Group 550$1,668
St Mary And Terrebonne$1,665
County Cost Group 540$1,659
County Cost Group 530$1,653
Monroe$1,650
County Cost Group 520$1,647
Columbia$1,644
Youngstown$1,350
County Cost Group 580 is #315 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,122 a month —
$49,464 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at County Cost Group 5800 – $2,280 / month
E-1$1,278
E-2$1,278
E-3$1,278
E-4$1,278
E-5$1,380
E-6$1,680
E-7$1,749
E-8$1,821
E-9$1,932
W-1$1,698
W-2$1,779
W-3$1,872
W-4$1,953
W-5$2,061
O-1E$1,758
O-2E$1,857
O-3E$1,971
O-1$1,425
O-2$1,677
O-3$1,869
O-4$2,091
O-5$2,253
O-6$2,268
O-7$2,280
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from County Cost Group 580 to San Francisco at W-1
is worth $3,774 a month — about 47 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.