Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$2,038 / mo gross
Without dependents here$1,290 / 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 740 · E-5 · $1,590/mo
County Cost Group 740$1,590/mo · $19,080/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
County Cost Group 750$1,638
Tulsa$1,638
Topeka$1,626
St Mary And Terrebonne$1,620
Whiteman AFB$1,611
Malmstrom SFB$1,608
Mountain Home AFB$1,605
Gulfport$1,602
Bismarck$1,596
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
Anniston$1,185
County Cost Group 740 is #262 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 7400 – $2,553 / month
E-1$1,476
E-2$1,476
E-3$1,476
E-4$1,476
E-5$1,590
E-6$1,896
E-7$1,968
E-8$2,049
E-9$2,166
W-1$1,914
W-2$2,001
W-3$2,100
W-4$2,193
W-5$2,307
O-1E$1,980
O-2E$2,085
O-3E$2,211
O-1$1,632
O-2$1,893
O-3$2,097
O-4$2,343
O-5$2,520
O-6$2,538
O-7$2,553
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from County Cost Group 740 to San Francisco at E-5
is worth $3,537 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.