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-3 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,654 / month
Westchester County$6,654
Dahlgren$2,847
Spokane$2,847
Humboldt County$2,844
Asheville$2,838
County Cost Group 830$2,829
Syracuse$2,817
Twenty Nine Palms MCB$2,817
Fort Collins$2,808
Reno$2,802
Nashville$2,787
Detroit$2,781
Buffalo$2,775
Helena$2,775
Patuxent River$2,772
Eugene$2,769
Richmond$2,763
St. Louis$2,763
Rochester$2,760
Barstow$2,751
Atlanta$2,748
Salt Lake City$2,748
Anniston$1,689
Detroit is #130 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 Detroit0 – $3,609 / month
E-1$2,034
E-2$2,034
E-3$2,034
E-4$2,034
E-5$2,361
E-6$2,583
E-7$2,652
E-8$2,730
E-9$2,904
W-1$2,601
W-2$2,682
W-3$2,781
W-4$2,949
W-5$3,159
O-1E$2,664
O-2E$2,763
O-3E$2,982
O-1$2,397
O-2$2,580
O-3$2,778
O-4$3,228
O-5$3,555
O-6$3,582
O-7$3,609
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Detroit to Westchester County at W-3
is worth $3,873 a month — about 23 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.