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-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $8,136 / month
Westchester County$8,136
Ventura$4,830
West Palm Beach$4,824
Manchester$4,746
Washington$4,731
Worcester$4,725
Newport$4,707
Warrenton$4,638
New Haven$4,629
Providence$4,572
County Cost Group 890$4,569
Hartford$4,431
Vandenberg SFB$4,392
Atlantic City$4,332
Indian Head Navordsta$4,314
Hawaii County$4,299
Boulder$4,254
County Cost Group 880$4,170
Ann Arbor$4,161
JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst$4,155
Annapolis$4,134
Austin$4,131
Youngstown$1,839
Hartford is #45 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $6,297 a month —
$75,564 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Hartford0 – $4,467 / month
E-1$2,652
E-2$2,652
E-3$2,652
E-4$2,652
E-5$2,901
E-6$3,330
E-7$3,489
E-8$3,657
E-9$3,867
W-1$3,351
W-2$3,555
W-3$3,765
W-4$3,903
W-5$4,074
O-1E$3,519
O-2E$3,735
O-3E$3,930
O-1$2,961
O-2$3,327
O-3$3,759
O-4$4,128
O-5$4,395
O-6$4,431
O-7$4,467
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Hartford to Westchester County at O-6
is worth $3,705 a month — about 103 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.