PCS compareLake Charles · W-4 · with dep. · $2,088/mo
Lake Charles$2,088/mo · $25,056/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-4 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,963 / month
Westchester County$6,963
Akron$2,136
Peoria$2,133
St Mary And Terrebonne$2,133
County Cost Group 720$2,130
Moody AFB$2,130
Lubbock$2,121
County Cost Group 710$2,106
Little Rock$2,100
Sault Ste Marie$2,097
Springfield$2,094
Lake Charles$2,088
County Cost Group 700$2,085
Alexandria$2,073
Fort Leonard Wood$2,073
Montgomery$2,073
County Cost Group 690$2,070
Beaumont$2,064
County Cost Group 680$2,058
Oklahoma City$2,055
Fort Chaffee$2,052
Meridian$2,052
Stevens Point$1,779
Lake Charles is #292 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $5,184 a month —
$62,208 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-4
is worth $4,875 a month — about 36 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.