PCS compareFort Collins · O-2 · with dep. · $2,529/mo
Fort Collins$2,529/mo · $30,348/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.
O-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,451 / month
San Francisco$5,451
County Cost Group 830$2,577
Asheville$2,568
Elizabeth City$2,559
Norfolk$2,556
Brunswick$2,553
Buffalo$2,550
Spokane$2,550
Patuxent River$2,544
Twenty Nine Palms MCB$2,544
Birmingham$2,529
Fort Collins$2,529
Helena$2,526
Cincinnati$2,523
Eglin AFB$2,523
Houston$2,514
Rochester$2,514
Dahlonega$2,511
Wilmington$2,496
Volusia County$2,493
Dover AFB$2,490
County Cost Group 820$2,487
Youngstown$1,332
Fort Collins is #135 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 Fort Collins0 – $3,210 / month
E-1$2,061
E-2$2,061
E-3$2,061
E-4$2,061
E-5$2,268
E-6$2,532
E-7$2,631
E-8$2,739
E-9$2,865
W-1$2,550
W-2$2,673
W-3$2,808
W-4$2,886
W-5$2,985
O-1E$2,649
O-2E$2,787
O-3E$2,901
O-1$2,307
O-2$2,529
O-3$2,805
O-4$3,012
O-5$3,165
O-6$3,189
O-7$3,210
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Fort Collins to San Francisco at O-2
is worth $2,922 a month — about 11 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.