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-8 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,333 / month
Westchester County$6,333
JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst$3,525
Vallejo$3,525
Everett$3,489
Brunswick$3,477
Willow Grove$3,432
County Cost Group 880$3,420
San Bernardino$3,408
Sitka$3,399
Annapolis$3,384
Fort G. G. Meade$3,378
Madison$3,297
Austin$3,294
Ann Arbor$3,291
Hampden County$3,288
Quantico$3,288
New London$3,249
JB Elmendorf-Richardson$3,240
Edwards AFB$3,237
Stockton$3,219
Ketchikan$3,213
Fort Detrick$3,207
Anniston$1,638
Madison is #65 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,695 a month —
$56,340 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-8
is worth $3,036 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.