PCS compareFort Polk · O-3 · with dep. · $1,938/mo
Fort Polk$1,938/mo · $23,256/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-3 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,633 / month
Westchester County$6,633
Oklahoma City$1,974
County Cost Group 680$1,968
Fort Chaffee$1,962
County Cost Group 670$1,959
Sault Ste Marie$1,959
Beaumont$1,956
Fort Riley$1,953
Meridian$1,953
Alexandria$1,950
County Cost Group 660$1,944
Fort Polk$1,938
Wichita$1,938
County Cost Group 650$1,935
Montgomery$1,932
County Cost Group 640$1,926
Sparta$1,923
County Cost Group 630$1,917
Huntington$1,917
County Cost Group 620$1,911
Albany$1,905
Holloman AFB$1,905
Anniston$1,686
Fort Polk is #305 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,947 a month —
$59,364 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Fort Polk0 – $2,289 / month
E-1$1,206
E-2$1,206
E-3$1,206
E-4$1,206
E-5$1,218
E-6$1,833
E-7$1,872
E-8$1,911
E-9$1,989
W-1$1,854
W-2$1,887
W-3$1,941
W-4$2,010
W-5$2,100
O-1E$1,875
O-2E$1,929
O-3E$2,022
O-1$1,296
O-2$1,827
O-3$1,938
O-4$2,124
O-5$2,262
O-6$2,277
O-7$2,289
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Fort Polk to Westchester County at O-3
is worth $4,695 a month — about 25 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.