PCS compareCounty Cost Group 860 · O-1 · with dep. · $2,535/mo
County Cost Group 860$2,535/mo · $30,420/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-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,172 / month
San Francisco$5,172
Ballston Spa$2,670
Baltimore$2,652
Outer Banks$2,652
New London$2,646
Ann Arbor$2,628
Milwaukee$2,625
JB Lewis-McChord$2,607
Stockton$2,607
Minneapolis$2,577
Patrick SFB$2,553
County Cost Group 860$2,535
Elizabeth City$2,523
Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,517
Dallas$2,517
Oxford$2,496
Port Angeles$2,493
Fresno$2,490
Great Lakes Navtracen$2,475
St. Louis$2,472
Beaufort$2,457
Birmingham$2,457
Youngstown$1,218
County Cost Group 860 is #91 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,954 a month —
$47,448 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at County Cost Group 8600 – $3,729 / month
E-1$2,325
E-2$2,325
E-3$2,325
E-4$2,325
E-5$2,487
E-6$2,829
E-7$2,922
E-8$3,027
E-9$3,186
W-1$2,847
W-2$2,964
W-3$3,093
W-4$3,219
W-5$3,378
O-1E$2,940
O-2E$3,072
O-3E$3,246
O-1$2,535
O-2$2,826
O-3$3,090
O-4$3,429
O-5$3,672
O-6$3,702
O-7$3,729
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from County Cost Group 860 to San Francisco at O-1
is worth $2,637 a month — about 9 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.