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-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,451 / month
San Francisco$5,451
Syracuse$2,382
Yakima$2,379
Carlisle Barracks$2,373
Omaha$2,373
New Orleans$2,370
Battle Creek$2,367
Myrtle Beach$2,358
Salt Lake City$2,355
Gainesville$2,352
Duluth$2,331
Fargo$2,328
Albuquerque$2,325
Humboldt County$2,316
Memphis$2,316
Raleigh$2,316
Eastern Shore$2,310
County Cost Group 800$2,280
Boise$2,274
Lemoore NAS$2,274
Louisville$2,271
State College$2,271
Youngstown$1,332
Fargo is #176 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,119 a month —
$49,428 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Fargo0 – $2,946 / month
E-1$1,521
E-2$1,521
E-3$1,521
E-4$1,521
E-5$1,707
E-6$2,337
E-7$2,400
E-8$2,466
E-9$2,574
W-1$2,358
W-2$2,427
W-3$2,514
W-4$2,598
W-5$2,706
O-1E$2,409
O-2E$2,499
O-3E$2,613
O-1$1,785
O-2$2,328
O-3$2,511
O-4$2,739
O-5$2,904
O-6$2,925
O-7$2,946
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Fargo to San Francisco at O-2
is worth $3,123 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.