PCS compareMontgomery · E-5 · with dep. · $1,683/mo
Montgomery$1,683/mo · $20,196/yr
CURRENT
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
Wilkes-Barre$1,740
Grand Forks$1,731
Fort Huachuca$1,719
Fort Benning$1,716
Auburn$1,707
Fargo$1,707
White Sands MR$1,701
Fort Hood$1,695
Yuma$1,695
County Cost Group 760$1,686
Montgomery$1,683
Fort Drum$1,665
Cheyenne$1,653
Wright-Patterson AFB$1,650
Fort Knox$1,647
Oklahoma City$1,644
Morgantown$1,641
County Cost Group 750$1,638
Tulsa$1,638
Topeka$1,626
St Mary And Terrebonne$1,620
Anniston$1,185
Montgomery is #245 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 Montgomery0 – $2,598 / month
E-1$1,605
E-2$1,605
E-3$1,605
E-4$1,605
E-5$1,683
E-6$1,758
E-7$1,818
E-8$1,887
E-9$2,034
W-1$1,773
W-2$1,845
W-3$1,935
W-4$2,073
W-5$2,244
O-1E$1,827
O-2E$1,920
O-3E$2,100
O-1$1,701
O-2$1,755
O-3$1,932
O-4$2,298
O-5$2,565
O-6$2,583
O-7$2,598
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Montgomery to San Francisco at E-5
is worth $3,444 a month — about 46 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.