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-4 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $7,470 / month
Westchester County$7,470
San Luis Obispo$4,920
West Point$4,884
Cape Cod-Plymouth$4,872
Portland$4,830
Oakland$4,809
Honolulu County$4,737
Fort Monmouth$4,710
Perth Amboy$4,638
Fitchburg$4,587
Burlington$4,584
Marin$4,563
Seattle$4,554
Ventura$4,545
Manchester$4,512
Newport$4,446
West Palm Beach$4,443
Washington$4,410
Providence$4,317
Worcester$4,296
New Haven$4,275
County Cost Group 890$4,236
Youngstown$1,809
Marin is #33 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $5,661 a month —
$67,932 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Marin0 – $4,944 / month
E-1$3,252
E-2$3,252
E-3$3,252
E-4$3,252
E-5$3,303
E-6$3,819
E-7$3,939
E-8$4,065
E-9$4,263
W-1$3,840
W-2$3,990
W-3$4,149
W-4$4,305
W-5$4,497
O-1E$3,960
O-2E$4,125
O-3E$4,335
O-1$3,369
O-2$3,813
O-3$4,146
O-4$4,563
O-5$4,863
O-6$4,905
O-7$4,944
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Marin to Westchester County at O-4
is worth $2,907 a month — about 10 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.