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-4 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $7,470 / month
Westchester County$7,470
Astoria$3,480
Baltimore$3,477
Outer Banks$3,438
Philadelphia$3,435
County Cost Group 860$3,429
Denver$3,426
Portland$3,420
Fort Pierce$3,408
Aberdeen Proving Grounds$3,396
Corvallis$3,387
Great Lakes Navtracen$3,381
Oxford$3,378
Asheville$3,351
Fort Myers Beach$3,345
Beale AFB$3,342
Charlottesville$3,333
County Cost Group 850$3,330
JB Lewis-McChord$3,324
Sacramento$3,318
Bridgeport$3,312
Port Angeles$3,285
Youngstown$1,809
Great Lakes Navtracen is #92 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $5,661 a month —
$67,932 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 Westchester County at O-4
is worth $4,089 a month — about 15 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.