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-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,036 / month
Westchester County$6,036
Northern New Jersey$5,079
Boston$4,995
Long Island$4,923
Martha's Vineyard$4,821
Hanscom AFB$4,632
Camp Pendleton$4,536
Florida Keys$4,485
Kauai County$4,476
San Diego$4,464
Staten Island$4,395
Monterey$4,374
Los Angeles$4,365
West Point$4,257
Oakland$4,242
Cape Cod-Plymouth$4,218
Fort Monmouth$4,212
Honolulu County$4,182
Trenton$4,179
Perth Amboy$4,161
Essex CO$4,158
Miami$4,131
Youngstown$1,560
Monterey is #17 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,476 a month —
$53,712 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Monterey0 – $5,658 / month
E-1$3,249
E-2$3,249
E-3$3,249
E-4$3,249
E-5$3,465
E-6$3,867
E-7$4,218
E-8$4,599
E-9$4,956
W-1$3,894
W-2$4,374
W-3$4,842
W-4$5,001
W-5$5,196
O-1E$4,293
O-2E$4,773
O-3E$5,031
O-1$3,519
O-2$3,864
O-3$4,824
O-4$5,259
O-5$5,565
O-6$5,613
O-7$5,658
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Monterey to Westchester County at W-2
is worth $1,662 a month — about 4 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.