Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$1,996 / mo gross
Without dependents here$1,263 / 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 730 · E-5 · $1,557/mo
County Cost Group 730$1,557/mo · $18,684/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
Fallon NAS$1,596
County Cost Group 740$1,590
Holloman AFB$1,590
Camp Lejeune$1,584
Lafayette$1,584
Akron$1,581
Goodfellow AFB$1,578
Fort Rucker$1,572
Peoria$1,572
China Lake$1,563
County Cost Group 730$1,557
Sioux Falls$1,554
Johnson City$1,548
Minot AFB$1,548
Scott AFB$1,542
Champaign$1,539
County Cost Group 720$1,536
Lexington$1,536
Sault Ste Marie$1,536
Huntington$1,533
Springfield$1,527
Anniston$1,185
County Cost Group 730 is #271 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 7300 – $2,511 / month
E-1$1,446
E-2$1,446
E-3$1,446
E-4$1,446
E-5$1,557
E-6$1,863
E-7$1,935
E-8$2,013
E-9$2,133
W-1$1,881
W-2$1,968
W-3$2,067
W-4$2,157
W-5$2,271
O-1E$1,947
O-2E$2,049
O-3E$2,175
O-1$1,602
O-2$1,860
O-3$2,064
O-4$2,304
O-5$2,478
O-6$2,496
O-7$2,511
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from County Cost Group 730 to San Francisco at E-5
is worth $3,570 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.