PCS compareLake Charles · W-2 · with dep. · $1,809/mo
Lake Charles$1,809/mo · $21,708/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-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,036 / month
Westchester County$6,036
Gulfport$1,836
St Mary And Terrebonne$1,836
County Cost Group 640$1,833
County Cost Group 630$1,827
Fort Chaffee$1,827
Alexandria$1,821
Wichita$1,821
County Cost Group 620$1,818
Charleston$1,812
County Cost Group 610$1,809
Lake Charles$1,809
County Cost Group 600$1,803
Saginaw$1,797
County Cost Group 590$1,791
County Cost Group 580$1,779
Erie$1,779
County Cost Group 570$1,764
Meridian$1,758
County Cost Group 560$1,755
County Cost Group 550$1,746
Cannon AFB$1,740
Youngstown$1,560
Lake Charles is #314 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,476 a month —
$53,712 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 W-2
is worth $4,227 a month — about 24 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.