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
Brownsville$1,551
County Cost Group 700$1,542
Saginaw$1,542
Terre Haute$1,542
County Cost Group 690$1,527
Lubbock$1,524
County Cost Group 680$1,515
Fort Leonard Wood$1,515
County Cost Group 670$1,506
Laughlin AFB$1,506
Erie$1,500
County Cost Group 660$1,494
County Cost Group 650$1,485
Columbus AFB$1,476
County Cost Group 640$1,476
County Cost Group 630$1,470
Frankfort$1,464
County Cost Group 620$1,461
County Cost Group 610$1,455
Sparta$1,455
Charleston$1,452
Youngstown$1,218
Erie is #298 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 Erie0 – $2,253 / month
E-1$1,452
E-2$1,452
E-3$1,452
E-4$1,452
E-5$1,464
E-6$1,680
E-7$1,746
E-8$1,824
E-9$1,929
W-1$1,695
W-2$1,779
W-3$1,875
W-4$1,950
W-5$2,049
O-1E$1,758
O-2E$1,857
O-3E$1,965
O-1$1,500
O-2$1,677
O-3$1,872
O-4$2,076
O-5$2,226
O-6$2,241
O-7$2,253
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Erie to San Francisco at O-1
is worth $3,672 a month — about 21 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.