Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$2,327 / mo gross
Without dependents here$1,476 / 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 780 · E-5 · $1,815/mo
County Cost Group 780$1,815/mo · $21,780/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
Lexington$1,875
Abilene$1,872
San Antonio (JBSA)$1,869
Pensacola$1,863
Morehead$1,851
Little Rock$1,848
Shreveport$1,845
Humboldt County$1,827
Tallahassee$1,824
Marquette$1,821
County Cost Group 780$1,815
Fort Campbell$1,815
Fort Leavenworth$1,815
Fort Bliss$1,809
Greensboro$1,809
Fort Bragg$1,806
Lansing$1,806
Robins AFB$1,800
Huntsville$1,797
State College$1,791
Corpus Christi$1,788
Anniston$1,185
County Cost Group 780 is #217 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 7800 – $2,847 / month
E-1$1,689
E-2$1,689
E-3$1,689
E-4$1,689
E-5$1,815
E-6$2,130
E-7$2,208
E-8$2,292
E-9$2,424
W-1$2,148
W-2$2,244
W-3$2,349
W-4$2,451
W-5$2,577
O-1E$2,220
O-2E$2,331
O-3E$2,469
O-1$1,860
O-2$2,127
O-3$2,346
O-4$2,613
O-5$2,808
O-6$2,829
O-7$2,847
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from County Cost Group 780 to San Francisco at E-5
is worth $3,312 a month — about 11 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.