PCS compareCounty Cost Group 780 · W-1 · with dep. · $2,148/mo
County Cost Group 780$2,148/mo · $25,776/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.
Comparison uses with-dependents rates. Differences are annual and untaxed.
Rate protection is not applied — a PCS resets you to the new location's current-year rate.
Verified official history. With-dependents rate shown; use the dependency switch above for its exact comparison.
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.
W-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,472 / month
San Francisco$5,472
Kansas City$2,190
Jackson$2,181
Toledo$2,181
Fort Gordon$2,175
Kings Bay$2,172
Fort Bliss$2,169
Lexington$2,169
El Centro$2,166
Fort Knox$2,157
Fort Leavenworth$2,151
County Cost Group 780$2,148
Fort Wayne$2,145
Johnson City$2,145
Columbia$2,136
Davis-Monthan AFB$2,136
Wichita Fls$2,133
Lincoln$2,130
Greensboro$2,127
Fort Campbell$2,121
Waco$2,118
San Antonio (JBSA)$2,109
Youngstown$1,350
County Cost Group 780 is #216 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,122 a month —
$49,464 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 W-1
is worth $3,324 a month — about 35 promotions at this grade.
Where you are stationed outweighs rank, by a lot.
What the rate table does not 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.