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.
W-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,472 / month
San Francisco$5,472
Madison$2,910
Patrick SFB$2,904
JB Elmendorf-Richardson$2,895
Ketchikan$2,889
Kodiak Island$2,886
Ballston Spa$2,880
Port Angeles$2,880
Hampden County$2,874
Allentown$2,862
County Cost Group 860$2,847
Fresno$2,847
Fort Pierce$2,844
Abilene$2,841
Oxford$2,835
Beaufort$2,832
Austin$2,826
Bridgeport$2,826
Dallas$2,826
Traverse City$2,823
Astoria$2,817
Minneapolis$2,796
Youngstown$1,350
Fresno is #91 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,122 a month —
$49,464 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 San Francisco at W-1
is worth $2,625 a month — about 73 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.