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.
W-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,472 / month
San Francisco$5,472
Minneapolis$2,796
Great Lakes Navtracen$2,778
Portland$2,772
Whidbey Island$2,766
County Cost Group 850$2,763
Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,760
Rome$2,760
Bremerton$2,751
Charlottesville$2,733
Corvallis$2,733
Dahlgren$2,733
Atlanta$2,727
Coastal Maine$2,718
Milwaukee$2,715
Reno$2,697
Nashville$2,694
County Cost Group 840$2,673
St. Louis$2,673
Knoxville$2,670
Savannah$2,670
Richmond$2,646
Youngstown$1,350
Dahlgren is #110 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,122 a month —
$49,464 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Dahlgren0 – $3,588 / month
E-1$2,307
E-2$2,307
E-3$2,307
E-4$2,307
E-5$2,313
E-6$2,715
E-7$2,763
E-8$2,811
E-9$2,955
W-1$2,733
W-2$2,781
W-3$2,847
W-4$2,997
W-5$3,183
O-1E$2,766
O-2E$2,835
O-3E$3,027
O-1$2,367
O-2$2,712
O-3$2,844
O-4$3,243
O-5$3,534
O-6$3,564
O-7$3,588
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Dahlgren to San Francisco at W-1
is worth $2,739 a month — about 57 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.