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-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,454 / month
San Francisco$5,454
Morehead$2,046
Fayetteville$2,040
Shreveport$2,028
Sioux Falls$2,025
Marquette$2,010
Grand Forks$2,004
Columbus AFB$1,998
Scott AFB$1,998
County Cost Group 760$1,995
Lexington$1,995
Lansing$1,983
Champaign$1,980
Minot AFB$1,980
Fort Benning$1,977
Bloomington$1,956
Seymour Johnson AFB$1,950
County Cost Group 750$1,947
Sumter$1,947
Camp Lejeune$1,944
Tulsa$1,944
Little Rock$1,941
Youngstown$1,335
Lansing is #245 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,119 a month —
$49,428 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Lansing0 – $2,859 / month
E-1$1,611
E-2$1,611
E-3$1,611
E-4$1,611
E-5$1,806
E-6$1,983
E-7$2,034
E-8$2,091
E-9$2,238
W-1$2,001
W-2$2,058
W-3$2,130
W-4$2,280
W-5$2,466
O-1E$2,040
O-2E$2,118
O-3E$2,310
O-1$1,836
O-2$1,980
O-3$2,127
O-4$2,529
O-5$2,820
O-6$2,841
O-7$2,859
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Lansing to San Francisco at E-6
is worth $3,471 a month — about 68 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.