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-4 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $7,470 / month
Westchester County$7,470
Rochester$3,027
Wilmington$3,018
Yakima$3,015
Fort Collins$3,012
Elizabeth City$3,009
Salem$3,009
Barstow$2,976
Omaha$2,967
Salt Lake City$2,946
Coos Bay$2,943
Durham$2,931
State College$2,928
Chattanooga$2,916
County Cost Group 810$2,916
Panama City$2,913
Bloomington$2,910
Charleston$2,904
Fort Stewart$2,904
Cleveland$2,889
Tallahassee$2,883
Cincinnati$2,868
Youngstown$1,809
Durham is #153 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $5,661 a month —
$67,932 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Durham0 – $3,279 / month
E-1$1,995
E-2$1,995
E-3$1,995
E-4$1,995
E-5$2,118
E-6$2,391
E-7$2,436
E-8$2,484
E-9$2,631
W-1$2,409
W-2$2,454
W-3$2,520
W-4$2,673
W-5$2,868
O-1E$2,439
O-2E$2,508
O-3E$2,703
O-1$2,160
O-2$2,388
O-3$2,517
O-4$2,931
O-5$3,231
O-6$3,258
O-7$3,279
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Durham to Westchester County at O-4
is worth $4,539 a month — about 15 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.