Untaxed — matching it with taxable pay takes$2,977 / mo gross
Without dependents here$1,896 / 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 840 · E-5 · $2,322/mo
County Cost Group 840$2,322/mo · $27,864/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
Hampden County$2,388
Charleston$2,385
Portland$2,379
Allentown$2,373
Charlottesville$2,373
Ocala$2,370
Bremerton$2,364
Detroit$2,361
Fort Carson$2,358
Richmond$2,358
County Cost Group 840$2,322
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
Anniston$1,185
County Cost Group 840 is #121 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 8400 – $3,510 / month
E-1$2,166
E-2$2,166
E-3$2,166
E-4$2,166
E-5$2,322
E-6$2,655
E-7$2,745
E-8$2,844
E-9$2,997
W-1$2,673
W-2$2,787
W-3$2,910
W-4$3,030
W-5$3,180
O-1E$2,760
O-2E$2,889
O-3E$3,051
O-1$2,367
O-2$2,652
O-3$2,907
O-4$3,225
O-5$3,459
O-6$3,486
O-7$3,510
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from County Cost Group 840 to San Francisco at E-5
is worth $2,805 a month — about 8 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.