PCS compareCounty Cost Group 850 · O-2 · with dep. · $2,742/mo
County Cost Group 850$2,742/mo · $32,904/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-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,451 / month
San Francisco$5,451
Beaufort$2,808
Abilene$2,805
Dallas$2,805
Austin$2,796
Bridgeport$2,796
Traverse City$2,793
Astoria$2,787
Minneapolis$2,778
Great Lakes Navtracen$2,757
Portland$2,748
County Cost Group 850$2,742
Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,739
Whidbey Island$2,736
Rome$2,730
Bremerton$2,727
Charlottesville$2,712
Corvallis$2,712
Dahlgren$2,712
Atlanta$2,706
Milwaukee$2,697
Coastal Maine$2,694
Youngstown$1,332
County Cost Group 850 is #105 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,119 a month —
$49,428 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at County Cost Group 8500 – $3,624 / month
E-1$2,247
E-2$2,247
E-3$2,247
E-4$2,247
E-5$2,409
E-6$2,745
E-7$2,838
E-8$2,940
E-9$3,096
W-1$2,763
W-2$2,880
W-3$3,006
W-4$3,129
W-5$3,282
O-1E$2,853
O-2E$2,985
O-3E$3,153
O-1$2,454
O-2$2,742
O-3$3,003
O-4$3,330
O-5$3,570
O-6$3,600
O-7$3,624
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from County Cost Group 850 to San Francisco at O-2
is worth $2,709 a month — about 10 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.