PCS compareFairbanks · E-8 · with dep. · $2,814/mo
Fairbanks$2,814/mo · $33,768/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-8 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,333 / month
Westchester County$6,333
Minneapolis$2,877
Allentown$2,874
Abilene$2,853
Beaufort$2,844
County Cost Group 840$2,844
Knoxville$2,844
Rome$2,844
Dallas$2,838
Coastal Maine$2,826
Corvallis$2,826
Fairbanks$2,814
Dahlgren$2,811
Asheville$2,772
Spokane$2,772
County Cost Group 830$2,766
Reno$2,766
Nashville$2,754
Twenty Nine Palms MCB$2,751
Atlanta$2,739
Fort Collins$2,739
St. Louis$2,733
Anniston$1,638
Fairbanks is #119 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 Fairbanks0 – $3,456 / month
E-1$2,106
E-2$2,106
E-3$2,106
E-4$2,106
E-5$2,436
E-6$2,454
E-7$2,610
E-8$2,814
E-9$3,018
W-1$2,457
W-2$2,694
W-3$2,943
W-4$3,045
W-5$3,171
O-1E$2,646
O-2E$2,907
O-3E$3,066
O-1$2,448
O-2$2,451
O-3$2,937
O-4$3,210
O-5$3,405
O-6$3,432
O-7$3,456
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Fairbanks to Westchester County at E-8
is worth $3,519 a month — about 17 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.