PCS compareLafayette · E-4 · with dep. · $1,449/mo
Lafayette$1,449/mo · $17,388/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.
E-4 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,067 / month
New York City$5,067
Topeka$1,503
White Sands MR$1,503
Bismarck$1,500
Seymour Johnson AFB$1,500
Beaumont$1,488
County Cost Group 740$1,476
Champaign$1,467
Johnson City$1,467
Goodfellow AFB$1,455
Erie$1,452
Lafayette$1,449
Whiteman AFB$1,449
County Cost Group 730$1,446
Fort Rucker$1,440
Morgantown$1,440
Sumter$1,440
Lexington$1,437
Minot AFB$1,428
Sioux Falls$1,428
County Cost Group 720$1,425
Holloman AFB$1,419
Youngstown$1,134
Lafayette is #273 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 Lafayette0 – $2,517 / month
E-1$1,449
E-2$1,449
E-3$1,449
E-4$1,449
E-5$1,584
E-6$1,845
E-7$1,914
E-8$1,992
E-9$2,112
W-1$1,860
W-2$1,944
W-3$2,043
W-4$2,139
W-5$2,262
O-1E$1,926
O-2E$2,025
O-3E$2,157
O-1$1,623
O-2$1,842
O-3$2,040
O-4$2,298
O-5$2,484
O-6$2,502
O-7$2,517
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Lafayette to New York City at E-4
is worth $3,618 a month — about 27 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.