PCS compareCounty Cost Group 840 · W-2 · with dep. · $2,787/mo
County Cost Group 840$2,787/mo · $33,444/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.
W-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,036 / month
Westchester County$6,036
Fresno$2,883
County Cost Group 850$2,880
Allentown$2,871
Abilene$2,850
Minneapolis$2,847
Beaufort$2,841
Dallas$2,835
Rome$2,811
Corvallis$2,793
Coastal Maine$2,787
County Cost Group 840$2,787
Dover AFB$2,787
Knoxville$2,784
Dahlgren$2,781
Reno$2,739
Atlanta$2,736
Nashville$2,730
Asheville$2,709
County Cost Group 830$2,709
St. Louis$2,709
Spokane$2,706
Youngstown$1,560
County Cost Group 840 is #115 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,476 a month —
$53,712 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 W-2
is worth $3,249 a month — about 26 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.