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-2E with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,564 / month
Westchester County$6,564
Bremerton$3,024
Charlottesville$3,024
Dover AFB$3,018
Philadelphia$3,012
Portland$3,012
Bridgeport$3,003
Great Lakes Navtracen$3,000
Orlando$2,994
County Cost Group 850$2,985
Oxford$2,973
Fresno$2,928
Patrick SFB$2,919
Fairbanks$2,907
Minneapolis$2,901
County Cost Group 840$2,889
Knoxville$2,889
Allentown$2,877
Rome$2,868
Abilene$2,856
Coastal Maine$2,856
Corvallis$2,853
Anniston$1,671
Fresno is #107 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,893 a month —
$58,716 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Fresno0 – $3,465 / month
E-1$2,175
E-2$2,175
E-3$2,175
E-4$2,175
E-5$2,439
E-6$2,826
E-7$2,868
E-8$2,910
E-9$3,015
W-1$2,847
W-2$2,883
W-3$2,940
W-4$3,042
W-5$3,174
O-1E$2,871
O-2E$2,928
O-3E$3,063
O-1$2,490
O-2$2,823
O-3$2,937
O-4$3,213
O-5$3,414
O-6$3,441
O-7$3,465
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Fresno to Westchester County at O-2E
is worth $3,636 a month — about 27 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.