Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$1,850 / mo gross
Without dependents here$1,167 / 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 650 · E-5 · $1,443/mo
County Cost Group 650$1,443/mo · $17,316/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
Terre Haute$1,494
Wichita Fls$1,491
County Cost Group 690$1,482
Fort Leonard Wood$1,479
Lubbock$1,476
County Cost Group 680$1,470
Laughlin AFB$1,470
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
Anniston$1,185
County Cost Group 650 is #300 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 6500 – $2,358 / month
E-1$1,335
E-2$1,335
E-3$1,335
E-4$1,335
E-5$1,443
E-6$1,743
E-7$1,812
E-8$1,887
E-9$2,001
W-1$1,761
W-2$1,842
W-3$1,938
W-4$2,022
W-5$2,133
O-1E$1,824
O-2E$1,923
O-3E$2,040
O-1$1,485
O-2$1,740
O-3$1,935
O-4$2,163
O-5$2,331
O-6$2,346
O-7$2,358
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from County Cost Group 650 to San Francisco at E-5
is worth $3,684 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.