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-3 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,654 / month
Westchester County$6,654
Charlotte$2,475
Fort Worth$2,463
Cleveland$2,460
Lemoore NAS$2,454
Cheyenne$2,445
Grand Rapids$2,442
Ocala$2,442
County Cost Group 790$2,436
Des Moines$2,436
Fort Knox$2,424
Morehead$2,424
Auburn$2,421
Kings Bay$2,421
Eastern Shore$2,409
Albuquerque$2,400
Fort Leavenworth$2,397
Louisville$2,397
Raleigh$2,394
Marquette$2,391
Nellis AFB$2,385
Waco$2,382
Anniston$1,689
Morehead is #196 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,965 a month —
$59,580 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Morehead0 – $2,940 / month
E-1$1,806
E-2$1,806
E-3$1,806
E-4$1,806
E-5$1,851
E-6$2,046
E-7$2,181
E-8$2,328
E-9$2,502
W-1$2,064
W-2$2,241
W-3$2,424
W-4$2,529
W-5$2,658
O-1E$2,205
O-2E$2,397
O-3E$2,550
O-1$1,884
O-2$2,043
O-3$2,421
O-4$2,697
O-5$2,898
O-6$2,919
O-7$2,940
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Morehead to Westchester County at W-3
is worth $4,230 a month — about 40 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.