Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$2,885 / mo gross
Without dependents here$1,839 / 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 830 · E-5 · $2,250/mo
County Cost Group 830$2,250/mo · $27,000/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
Dahlgren$2,313
Fort Stewart$2,310
Phoenix$2,289
Volusia County$2,286
Cincinnati$2,283
Pittsburgh$2,283
Dover AFB$2,277
Hampton$2,274
Fort Collins$2,268
Nashville$2,268
County Cost Group 830$2,250
Austin$2,241
Asheville$2,214
Buffalo$2,214
Rochester$2,214
Albuquerque$2,211
Dahlonega$2,208
Brunswick$2,205
Coastal Maine$2,193
Houston$2,193
Eugene$2,187
Anniston$1,185
County Cost Group 830 is #132 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 8300 – $3,417 / month
E-1$2,097
E-2$2,097
E-3$2,097
E-4$2,097
E-5$2,250
E-6$2,580
E-7$2,670
E-8$2,766
E-9$2,916
W-1$2,598
W-2$2,709
W-3$2,829
W-4$2,946
W-5$3,093
O-1E$2,685
O-2E$2,811
O-3E$2,970
O-1$2,295
O-2$2,577
O-3$2,826
O-4$3,138
O-5$3,366
O-6$3,393
O-7$3,417
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from County Cost Group 830 to San Francisco at E-5
is worth $2,877 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.