PCS compareCounty Cost Group 840 · O-5 · with dep. · $3,459/mo
County Cost Group 840$3,459/mo · $41,508/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.
O-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $8,064 / month
Westchester County$8,064
Charlottesville$3,540
Dahlgren$3,534
Bridgeport$3,525
Sacramento$3,525
College Station$3,513
Fort Myers Beach$3,504
Beale AFB$3,492
Knoxville$3,492
JB Lewis-McChord$3,471
Allentown$3,465
County Cost Group 840$3,459
Beaufort$3,438
Port Angeles$3,435
Fresno$3,414
Bremerton$3,411
Pittsburgh$3,408
Fairbanks$3,405
Whidbey Island$3,402
Tampa$3,390
Traverse City$3,390
Minneapolis$3,384
Youngstown$1,827
County Cost Group 840 is #107 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $6,237 a month —
$74,844 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 Westchester County at O-5
is worth $4,605 a month — about 171 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.