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.
W-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,472 / month
San Francisco$5,472
Perth Amboy$4,092
Florida Keys$4,074
Ventura$4,029
Cape Cod-Plymouth$4,014
Trenton$3,996
San Luis Obispo$3,969
Honolulu County$3,930
Seattle$3,927
Monterey$3,894
Hawaii County$3,855
Marin$3,840
Miami$3,813
Washington$3,780
Essex CO$3,765
Burlington$3,762
New Haven$3,744
Chicago$3,720
Portsmouth$3,717
Vandenberg SFB$3,660
West Palm Beach$3,624
Portland$3,597
Youngstown$1,350
Marin is #30 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,122 a month —
$49,464 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 San Francisco at W-1
is worth $1,632 a month — about 11 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.