PCS compareCounty Cost Group 850 · W-3 · with dep. · $3,006/mo
County Cost Group 850$3,006/mo · $36,072/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-3 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,654 / month
Westchester County$6,654
Aberdeen Proving Grounds$3,075
Traverse City$3,072
Dover AFB$3,060
Bremerton$3,048
Charlottesville$3,048
Sacramento$3,042
Portland$3,033
Bridgeport$3,021
Great Lakes Navtracen$3,021
Philadelphia$3,018
County Cost Group 850$3,006
Orlando$3,000
Oxford$2,988
Fairbanks$2,943
Fresno$2,940
Patrick SFB$2,925
Minneapolis$2,913
County Cost Group 840$2,910
Knoxville$2,907
Allentown$2,883
Rome$2,883
Anniston$1,689
County Cost Group 850 is #104 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,965 a month —
$59,580 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 Westchester County at W-3
is worth $3,648 a month — about 30 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.