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-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $8,064 / month
Westchester County$8,064
Nantucket$6,933
Boston$6,483
Maui County$6,378
Santa Clara County$6,333
Florida Keys$6,213
Hanscom AFB$6,087
Northern New Jersey$5,991
Kauai County$5,892
Essex CO$5,853
Long Island$5,823
Miami$5,763
Martha's Vineyard$5,646
Monterey$5,565
San Diego$5,493
Los Angeles$5,436
San Luis Obispo$5,430
Staten Island$5,394
Camp Pendleton$5,391
Portsmouth$5,355
Trenton$5,334
West Point$5,253
Youngstown$1,827
Miami is #14 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $6,237 a month —
$74,844 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Miami0 – $5,862 / month
E-1$3,459
E-2$3,459
E-3$3,459
E-4$3,459
E-5$3,660
E-6$3,792
E-7$4,026
E-8$4,281
E-9$4,656
W-1$3,813
W-2$4,131
W-3$4,446
W-4$4,737
W-5$5,085
O-1E$4,074
O-2E$4,398
O-3E$4,791
O-1$3,687
O-2$3,789
O-3$4,437
O-4$5,208
O-5$5,763
O-6$5,814
O-7$5,862
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Miami to Westchester County at O-5
is worth $2,301 a month — about 45 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.