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-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,172 / month
San Francisco$5,172
Fort Bliss$1,857
Fort Campbell$1,857
State College$1,854
Greensboro$1,851
Marquette$1,851
Corpus Christi$1,845
Fort Bragg$1,842
Coos Bay$1,839
Huntsville$1,839
College Station$1,836
Lansing$1,836
Lincoln$1,833
Des Moines$1,830
Fayetteville$1,821
Robins AFB$1,818
Waco$1,803
County Cost Group 770$1,797
Fargo$1,785
Fort Huachuca$1,782
Grand Forks$1,770
Wilkes-Barre$1,767
Youngstown$1,218
Lansing is #227 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,954 a month —
$47,448 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 O-1
is worth $3,336 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.