PCS compareEl Centro · E-4 · with dep. · $1,905/mo
El Centro$1,905/mo · $22,860/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.
E-4 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,067 / month
New York City$5,067
Nellis AFB$1,941
Rochester$1,941
Fort Worth$1,938
Ogden$1,932
Wilmington$1,932
Provo$1,929
Rome$1,929
County Cost Group 810$1,923
Duluth$1,917
Astoria$1,914
El Centro$1,905
Carlisle Barracks$1,902
Eastern Panhandle$1,899
Twenty Nine Palms MCB$1,896
Barstow$1,890
Omaha$1,887
Salem$1,872
Syracuse$1,872
Chattanooga$1,863
Kansas City$1,845
Boise$1,842
Youngstown$1,134
El Centro is #172 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,933 a month —
$47,196 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at El Centro0 – $3,018 / month
E-1$1,905
E-2$1,905
E-3$1,905
E-4$1,905
E-5$1,986
E-6$2,151
E-7$2,334
E-8$2,541
E-9$2,721
W-1$2,166
W-2$2,418
W-3$2,673
W-4$2,739
W-5$2,823
O-1E$2,373
O-2E$2,634
O-3E$2,751
O-1$2,013
O-2$2,148
O-3$2,664
O-4$2,847
O-5$2,976
O-6$2,997
O-7$3,018
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from El Centro to New York City at E-4
is worth $3,162 a month — about 39 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.