PCS compareFort Rucker · O-2 · with dep. · $1,740/mo
Fort Rucker$1,740/mo · $20,880/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
Fort Riley$1,779
Huntington$1,776
County Cost Group 680$1,770
China Lake$1,764
Charleston$1,761
County Cost Group 670$1,761
Montgomery$1,755
County Cost Group 660$1,749
Saginaw$1,746
County Cost Group 650$1,740
Fort Rucker$1,740
County Cost Group 640$1,731
County Cost Group 630$1,722
Fort Leonard Wood$1,719
County Cost Group 620$1,716
County Cost Group 610$1,707
Stevens Point$1,704
County Cost Group 600$1,701
Laughlin AFB$1,701
County Cost Group 590$1,689
Wichita$1,686
Youngstown$1,332
Fort Rucker is #302 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 Rucker0 – $2,778 / month
E-1$1,440
E-2$1,440
E-3$1,440
E-4$1,440
E-5$1,572
E-6$1,743
E-7$1,929
E-8$2,136
E-9$2,346
W-1$1,761
W-2$2,013
W-3$2,268
W-4$2,373
W-5$2,502
O-1E$1,968
O-2E$2,232
O-3E$2,394
O-1$1,602
O-2$1,740
O-3$2,262
O-4$2,541
O-5$2,742
O-6$2,760
O-7$2,778
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Fort Rucker to San Francisco at O-2
is worth $3,711 a month — about 7 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.