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-8 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,333 / month
Westchester County$6,333
Fargo$2,466
Hampton$2,457
Provo$2,457
County Cost Group 800$2,454
Fort Worth$2,454
Tallahassee$2,454
Cleveland$2,451
Grand Rapids$2,433
Ocala$2,424
Eastern Panhandle$2,421
Jackson$2,418
Corpus Christi$2,412
Rapid City$2,409
Lemoore NAS$2,406
Bangor$2,403
Fort Campbell$2,400
Cheyenne$2,388
Eastern Shore$2,382
Albuquerque$2,379
Des Moines$2,379
County Cost Group 790$2,376
Anniston$1,638
Jackson is #185 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,695 a month —
$56,340 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Jackson0 – $3,129 / month
E-1$1,818
E-2$1,818
E-3$1,818
E-4$1,818
E-5$1,920
E-6$2,163
E-7$2,286
E-8$2,418
E-9$2,598
W-1$2,181
W-2$2,340
W-3$2,505
W-4$2,634
W-5$2,790
O-1E$2,307
O-2E$2,481
O-3E$2,658
O-1$1,956
O-2$2,160
O-3$2,502
O-4$2,841
O-5$3,084
O-6$3,108
O-7$3,129
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Jackson to Westchester County at E-8
is worth $3,915 a month — about 22 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.