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-7 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,832 / month
Westchester County$5,832
Sitka$3,294
Quantico$3,228
Edwards AFB$3,195
Ann Arbor$3,180
New London$3,159
Beale AFB$3,150
Fort Detrick$3,132
Cape May$3,114
Denver$3,114
County Cost Group 870$3,096
Madison$3,084
Stockton$3,072
Tampa$3,066
Hampden County$3,063
JB Elmendorf-Richardson$3,045
Austin$3,039
Ketchikan$3,027
Philadelphia$3,000
Ballston Spa$2,997
Brunswick$2,997
Outer Banks$2,997
Youngstown$1,491
Madison is #73 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,341 a month —
$52,092 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Madison0 – $4,056 / month
E-1$2,394
E-2$2,394
E-3$2,394
E-4$2,394
E-5$2,655
E-6$2,889
E-7$3,084
E-8$3,297
E-9$3,525
W-1$2,910
W-2$3,171
W-3$3,435
W-4$3,558
W-5$3,711
O-1E$3,123
O-2E$3,396
O-3E$3,582
O-1$2,691
O-2$2,886
O-3$3,426
O-4$3,759
O-5$3,993
O-6$4,026
O-7$4,056
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Madison to Westchester County at E-7
is worth $2,748 a month — about 13 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.