PCS compareCounty Cost Group 790 · E-5 · with dep. · $1,890/mo
County Cost Group 790$1,890/mo · $22,680/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.
E-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,127 / month
San Francisco$5,127
Boise$1,926
Greenville$1,923
Yakima$1,923
Jackson$1,920
Roanoke$1,911
Rock Island$1,908
Bloomington$1,905
Davis-Monthan AFB$1,905
New Orleans$1,905
Bangor$1,893
County Cost Group 790$1,890
Fort Gordon$1,890
Helena$1,887
Mobile$1,887
Columbia$1,878
Baton Rouge$1,875
Columbus$1,875
Indianapolis$1,875
Lexington$1,875
Abilene$1,872
San Antonio (JBSA)$1,869
Anniston$1,185
County Cost Group 790 is #199 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 7900 – $2,949 / month
E-1$1,761
E-2$1,761
E-3$1,761
E-4$1,761
E-5$1,890
E-6$2,208
E-7$2,289
E-8$2,376
E-9$2,511
W-1$2,229
W-2$2,325
W-3$2,436
W-4$2,538
W-5$2,667
O-1E$2,304
O-2E$2,418
O-3E$2,559
O-1$1,938
O-2$2,205
O-3$2,433
O-4$2,706
O-5$2,907
O-6$2,928
O-7$2,949
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from County Cost Group 790 to San Francisco at E-5
is worth $3,237 a month — about 10 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.