PCS compareHuntsville · W-1 · with dep. · $2,097/mo
Huntsville$2,097/mo · $25,164/yr
CURRENT
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
Johnson City$2,145
Columbia$2,136
Davis-Monthan AFB$2,136
Wichita Fls$2,133
Lincoln$2,130
Greensboro$2,127
Fort Campbell$2,121
Waco$2,118
San Antonio (JBSA)$2,109
Greenville$2,097
Huntsville$2,097
Roanoke$2,094
Mobile$2,091
County Cost Group 770$2,085
Tallahassee$2,082
Bangor$2,067
Fort Bragg$2,067
Morehead$2,064
Fayetteville$2,058
Sioux Falls$2,046
Shreveport$2,043
Youngstown$1,350
Huntsville is #227 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 Huntsville0 – $2,640 / month
E-1$1,668
E-2$1,668
E-3$1,668
E-4$1,668
E-5$1,797
E-6$2,079
E-7$2,133
E-8$2,187
E-9$2,286
W-1$2,097
W-2$2,154
W-3$2,229
W-4$2,307
W-5$2,415
O-1E$2,139
O-2E$2,214
O-3E$2,325
O-1$1,839
O-2$2,076
O-3$2,226
O-4$2,445
O-5$2,607
O-6$2,625
O-7$2,640
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Huntsville to San Francisco at W-1
is worth $3,375 a month — about 59 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.