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-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,454 / month
San Francisco$5,454
Fresno$2,826
Abilene$2,820
Oxford$2,814
Beaufort$2,811
Dallas$2,808
Bridgeport$2,805
Austin$2,802
Traverse City$2,802
Astoria$2,796
Minneapolis$2,781
Great Lakes Navtracen$2,760
Portland$2,751
County Cost Group 850$2,745
Whidbey Island$2,745
Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,742
Rome$2,739
Bremerton$2,730
Charlottesville$2,715
Corvallis$2,715
Dahlgren$2,715
Atlanta$2,709
Youngstown$1,335
Great Lakes Navtracen is #103 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 Great Lakes Navtracen0 – $3,702 / month
E-1$2,202
E-2$2,202
E-3$2,202
E-4$2,202
E-5$2,427
E-6$2,760
E-7$2,853
E-8$2,955
E-9$3,120
W-1$2,778
W-2$2,895
W-3$3,021
W-4$3,156
W-5$3,327
O-1E$2,871
O-2E$3,000
O-3E$3,183
O-1$2,475
O-2$2,757
O-3$3,018
O-4$3,381
O-5$3,645
O-6$3,675
O-7$3,702
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Great Lakes Navtracen to San Francisco at E-6
is worth $2,694 a month — about 29 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.