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-8 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,333 / month
Westchester County$6,333
Riverside$3,663
Hartford$3,657
Santa Fe$3,639
Boulder$3,621
Indian Head Navordsta$3,597
Warrenton$3,594
Atlantic City$3,543
Juneau$3,531
JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst$3,525
Vallejo$3,525
Everett$3,489
Brunswick$3,477
Willow Grove$3,432
County Cost Group 880$3,420
San Bernardino$3,408
Sitka$3,399
Annapolis$3,384
Fort G. G. Meade$3,378
Madison$3,297
Austin$3,294
Ann Arbor$3,291
Anniston$1,638
Everett is #57 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,695 a month —
$56,340 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Everett0 – $3,999 / month
E-1$2,568
E-2$2,568
E-3$2,568
E-4$2,568
E-5$2,748
E-6$3,243
E-7$3,363
E-8$3,489
E-9$3,630
W-1$3,264
W-2$3,414
W-3$3,570
W-4$3,651
W-5$3,753
O-1E$3,384
O-2E$3,546
O-3E$3,666
O-1$2,814
O-2$3,240
O-3$3,567
O-4$3,780
O-5$3,936
O-6$3,969
O-7$3,999
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Everett to Westchester County at E-8
is worth $2,844 a month — about 20 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.