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-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,172 / month
San Francisco$5,172
Roanoke$1,941
County Cost Group 790$1,938
Davis-Monthan AFB$1,938
Fort Gordon$1,929
Columbus$1,926
Indianapolis$1,923
Bangor$1,920
Baton Rouge$1,920
Bloomington$1,920
Lexington$1,917
Mobile$1,917
Columbia$1,914
Pensacola$1,914
San Antonio (JBSA)$1,905
Humboldt County$1,893
Morehead$1,884
Shreveport$1,875
Little Rock$1,869
County Cost Group 780$1,860
Fort Leavenworth$1,860
Tallahassee$1,860
Youngstown$1,218
Mobile is #206 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,954 a month —
$47,448 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Mobile0 – $2,766 / month
E-1$1,731
E-2$1,731
E-3$1,731
E-4$1,731
E-5$1,887
E-6$2,073
E-7$2,118
E-8$2,169
E-9$2,286
W-1$2,091
W-2$2,139
W-3$2,205
W-4$2,319
W-5$2,463
O-1E$2,124
O-2E$2,193
O-3E$2,340
O-1$1,917
O-2$2,070
O-3$2,202
O-4$2,508
O-5$2,730
O-6$2,751
O-7$2,766
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Mobile to San Francisco at O-1
is worth $3,255 a month — about 21 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.