PCS compareFort Hood · E-5 · with dep. · $1,695/mo
Fort Hood$1,695/mo · $20,340/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-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,127 / month
San Francisco$5,127
College Station$1,758
Waco$1,755
County Cost Group 770$1,752
Wilkes-Barre$1,740
Grand Forks$1,731
Fort Huachuca$1,719
Fort Benning$1,716
Auburn$1,707
Fargo$1,707
White Sands MR$1,701
Fort Hood$1,695
Yuma$1,695
County Cost Group 760$1,686
Montgomery$1,683
Fort Drum$1,665
Cheyenne$1,653
Wright-Patterson AFB$1,650
Fort Knox$1,647
Oklahoma City$1,644
Morgantown$1,641
County Cost Group 750$1,638
Anniston$1,185
Fort Hood is #242 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,942 a month —
$47,304 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Fort Hood0 – $2,787 / month
E-1$1,662
E-2$1,662
E-3$1,662
E-4$1,662
E-5$1,695
E-6$1,920
E-7$2,070
E-8$2,238
E-9$2,409
W-1$1,938
W-2$2,139
W-3$2,346
W-4$2,433
W-5$2,544
O-1E$2,100
O-2E$2,313
O-3E$2,451
O-1$1,731
O-2$1,917
O-3$2,340
O-4$2,577
O-5$2,748
O-6$2,769
O-7$2,787
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Fort Hood to San Francisco at E-5
is worth $3,432 a month — about 15 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.