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.
E-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,127 / month
San Francisco$5,127
Cannon AFB$1,365
Paducah$1,365
County Cost Group 560$1,362
Lake Charles$1,356
County Cost Group 550$1,353
County Cost Group 540$1,344
County Cost Group 530$1,338
Stevens Point$1,338
County Cost Group 520$1,332
County Cost Group 510$1,329
Fort Riley$1,314
Alexandria$1,290
Meridian$1,290
Fort Chaffee$1,263
Altus AFB$1,254
Fort Sill$1,233
Fort Polk$1,218
Vance AFB$1,200
Monroe$1,194
Youngstown$1,191
Anniston$1,185
Monroe is #336 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,942 a month —
$47,304 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Monroe0 – $2,064 / month
E-1$1,143
E-2$1,143
E-3$1,143
E-4$1,143
E-5$1,194
E-6$1,629
E-7$1,665
E-8$1,704
E-9$1,779
W-1$1,650
W-2$1,680
W-3$1,731
W-4$1,797
W-5$1,884
O-1E$1,668
O-2E$1,719
O-3E$1,812
O-1$1,251
O-2$1,626
O-3$1,728
O-4$1,908
O-5$2,040
O-6$2,055
O-7$2,064
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Monroe to San Francisco at E-5
is worth $3,933 a month — about 9 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.