PCS compareLake Charles · O-1E · with dep. · $1,776/mo
Lake Charles$1,776/mo · $21,312/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.
O-1E with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,931 / month
Westchester County$5,931
Charleston$1,803
Fort Chaffee$1,803
St Mary And Terrebonne$1,803
Gulfport$1,800
County Cost Group 620$1,797
Wichita$1,797
Alexandria$1,794
County Cost Group 610$1,791
Saginaw$1,785
County Cost Group 600$1,782
Lake Charles$1,776
County Cost Group 590$1,770
County Cost Group 580$1,758
Erie$1,758
County Cost Group 570$1,746
County Cost Group 560$1,737
Stevens Point$1,734
County Cost Group 550$1,728
Meridian$1,722
County Cost Group 540$1,719
Cannon AFB$1,713
Youngstown$1,521
Lake Charles is #317 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,410 a month —
$52,920 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Lake Charles0 – $2,502 / month
E-1$1,287
E-2$1,287
E-3$1,287
E-4$1,287
E-5$1,356
E-6$1,626
E-7$1,755
E-8$1,893
E-9$2,061
W-1$1,644
W-2$1,809
W-3$1,983
W-4$2,088
W-5$2,223
O-1E$1,776
O-2E$1,956
O-3E$2,109
O-1$1,398
O-2$1,623
O-3$1,977
O-4$2,265
O-5$2,472
O-6$2,490
O-7$2,502
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Lake Charles to Westchester County at O-1E
is worth $4,155 a month — about 23 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.