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-4 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,067 / month
New York City$5,067
Beale AFB$2,733
Quantico$2,730
Willow Grove$2,730
JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst$2,715
Newport$2,685
County Cost Group 880$2,664
Hartford$2,652
Ketchikan$2,646
Santa Fe$2,637
Sacramento$2,598
Juneau$2,580
Everett$2,568
Boulder$2,565
Atlantic City$2,559
Denver$2,556
Fort Myers Beach$2,553
Cape May$2,523
Tampa$2,520
Fort Pierce$2,499
County Cost Group 870$2,478
Edwards AFB$2,475
Youngstown$1,134
Juneau is #63 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,933 a month —
$47,196 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Juneau0 – $4,140 / month
E-1$2,580
E-2$2,580
E-3$2,580
E-4$2,580
E-5$3,354
E-6$3,372
E-7$3,432
E-8$3,531
E-9$3,672
W-1$3,375
W-2$3,471
W-3$3,597
W-4$3,699
W-5$3,831
O-1E$3,447
O-2E$3,576
O-3E$3,720
O-1$3,366
O-2$3,369
O-3$3,594
O-4$3,873
O-5$4,074
O-6$4,110
O-7$4,140
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Juneau to New York City at E-4
is worth $2,487 a month — about 3 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.