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
Grand Haven$2,499
Phoenix$2,472
Panama City$2,460
Fairbanks$2,457
Charlotte$2,454
Fort Stewart$2,454
Barstow$2,451
Fort Carson$2,448
Fort Worth$2,442
Cleveland$2,439
Hampton$2,436
Grand Rapids$2,421
Chattanooga$2,418
Salem$2,418
College Station$2,412
Durham$2,409
County Cost Group 810$2,406
Ocala$2,406
Syracuse$2,406
Yakima$2,403
Carlisle Barracks$2,394
Youngstown$1,350
Hampton is #158 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 Hampton0 – $3,144 / month
E-1$2,082
E-2$2,082
E-3$2,082
E-4$2,082
E-5$2,274
E-6$2,421
E-7$2,439
E-8$2,457
E-9$2,571
W-1$2,436
W-2$2,445
W-3$2,478
W-4$2,610
W-5$2,778
O-1E$2,442
O-2E$2,466
O-3E$2,637
O-1$2,301
O-2$2,418
O-3$2,475
O-4$2,835
O-5$3,099
O-6$3,123
O-7$3,144
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Hampton to San Francisco at W-1
is worth $3,036 a month — about 337 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.