Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$1,800 / mo gross
Without dependents here$1,137 / mo
In government quarters, no dependents$50.10 / mo partial
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.
PCS compareCounty Cost Group 600 · E-5 · $1,404/mo
County Cost Group 600$1,404/mo · $16,848/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.
Differences are annual and untaxed. Rate protection is not applied —
a PCS resets you to the new location's current-year rate.
E-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,127 / month
San Francisco$5,127
Erie$1,464
County Cost Group 670$1,461
County Cost Group 660$1,449
County Cost Group 650$1,443
County Cost Group 640$1,434
County Cost Group 630$1,425
County Cost Group 620$1,419
County Cost Group 610$1,410
Frankfort$1,410
Charleston$1,404
County Cost Group 600$1,404
Columbus AFB$1,398
Hattiesburg$1,395
Sparta$1,395
County Cost Group 590$1,392
Springfield$1,389
County Cost Group 580$1,380
Columbia$1,377
Wichita$1,377
Albany$1,371
County Cost Group 570$1,371
Anniston$1,185
County Cost Group 600 is #306 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,942 a month —
$47,304 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at County Cost Group 6000 – $2,310 / month
E-1$1,302
E-2$1,302
E-3$1,302
E-4$1,302
E-5$1,404
E-6$1,704
E-7$1,773
E-8$1,845
E-9$1,956
W-1$1,722
W-2$1,803
W-3$1,896
W-4$1,980
W-5$2,088
O-1E$1,782
O-2E$1,881
O-3E$1,998
O-1$1,446
O-2$1,701
O-3$1,893
O-4$2,118
O-5$2,280
O-6$2,298
O-7$2,310
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from County Cost Group 600 to San Francisco at E-5
is worth $3,723 a month — about 12 promotions at this grade.
Where you are stationed outweighs rank, by a lot.
Things the rate table doesn't 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.