Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$2,515 / mo gross
Without dependents here$1,599 / 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 800 · E-5 · $1,962/mo
County Cost Group 800$1,962/mo · $23,544/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
Toledo$2,031
Salem$2,004
Barstow$2,001
Cleveland$1,998
Louisville$1,989
Chattanooga$1,986
El Centro$1,986
Kansas City$1,986
Rapid City$1,986
Twenty Nine Palms MCB$1,980
County Cost Group 800$1,962
Battle Creek$1,959
Fort Wayne$1,947
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
Anniston$1,185
County Cost Group 800 is #186 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 8000 – $3,039 / month
E-1$1,827
E-2$1,827
E-3$1,827
E-4$1,827
E-5$1,962
E-6$2,283
E-7$2,364
E-8$2,454
E-9$2,589
W-1$2,301
W-2$2,400
W-3$2,511
W-4$2,619
W-5$2,751
O-1E$2,379
O-2E$2,493
O-3E$2,640
O-1$2,007
O-2$2,280
O-3$2,508
O-4$2,793
O-5$2,997
O-6$3,021
O-7$3,039
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from County Cost Group 800 to San Francisco at E-5
is worth $3,165 a month — about 10 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.