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-3 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,633 / month
Westchester County$6,633
Fort Huachuca$2,232
Baton Rouge$2,229
Huntsville$2,226
Seymour Johnson AFB$2,226
Scott AFB$2,208
County Cost Group 760$2,205
Fort Wayne$2,205
Greenville$2,205
Lexington$2,205
Fort Bliss$2,202
Mobile$2,202
Davis-Monthan AFB$2,199
Grand Forks$2,199
Robins AFB$2,199
Toledo$2,199
Goodfellow AFB$2,193
Columbus AFB$2,181
Fort Bragg$2,175
Minot AFB$2,175
Brownsville$2,169
China Lake$2,154
Anniston$1,686
Mobile is #244 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,947 a month —
$59,364 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 Westchester County at O-3
is worth $4,431 a month — about 14 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.