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.
O-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,172 / month
San Francisco$5,172
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
County Cost Group 850$2,454
Norfolk$2,454
Eglin AFB$2,451
Youngstown$1,218
Dallas is #93 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 Dallas0 – $3,237 / month
E-1$2,220
E-2$2,220
E-3$2,220
E-4$2,220
E-5$2,469
E-6$2,808
E-7$2,829
E-8$2,838
E-9$2,901
W-1$2,826
W-2$2,835
W-3$2,850
W-4$2,919
W-5$3,018
O-1E$2,832
O-2E$2,841
O-3E$2,934
O-1$2,517
O-2$2,805
O-3$2,847
O-4$3,045
O-5$3,192
O-6$3,216
O-7$3,237
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Dallas to San Francisco at O-1
is worth $2,655 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.