Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$2,769 / mo gross
Without dependents here$1,764 / 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 820 · E-5 · $2,160/mo
County Cost Group 820$2,160/mo · $25,920/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
Brunswick$2,205
Coastal Maine$2,193
Houston$2,193
Eugene$2,187
Knoxville$2,184
Spokane$2,184
Grand Haven$2,181
Jacksonville$2,181
Charlotte$2,169
Panama City$2,163
County Cost Group 820$2,160
Memphis$2,154
Grand Rapids$2,148
Lemoore NAS$2,139
Kings Bay$2,133
Salt Lake City$2,130
Eastern Shore$2,121
Durham$2,118
Fort Worth$2,118
Ogden$2,118
Rome$2,109
Anniston$1,185
County Cost Group 820 is #149 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 8200 – $3,303 / month
E-1$2,016
E-2$2,016
E-3$2,016
E-4$2,016
E-5$2,160
E-6$2,490
E-7$2,577
E-8$2,670
E-9$2,817
W-1$2,508
W-2$2,616
W-3$2,733
W-4$2,847
W-5$2,988
O-1E$2,592
O-2E$2,715
O-3E$2,868
O-1$2,208
O-2$2,487
O-3$2,730
O-4$3,033
O-5$3,255
O-6$3,279
O-7$3,303
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from County Cost Group 820 to San Francisco at E-5
is worth $2,967 a month — about 9 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.