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
Trenton$4,365
Fort Monmouth$4,335
Portland$4,272
Manchester$4,245
Perth Amboy$4,242
Seattle$4,221
San Luis Obispo$4,218
Ventura$4,215
Burlington$4,209
Marin$4,149
Newport$4,146
Fitchburg$4,068
Washington$4,023
Providence$4,017
West Palm Beach$3,981
Hawaii County$3,948
New Haven$3,846
County Cost Group 890$3,831
Brunswick$3,783
Vandenberg SFB$3,783
Hartford$3,765
Anniston$1,689
Newport is #36 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 Newport0 – $4,743 / month
E-1$2,685
E-2$2,685
E-3$2,685
E-4$2,685
E-5$2,847
E-6$3,447
E-7$3,702
E-8$3,972
E-9$4,230
W-1$3,474
W-2$3,813
W-3$4,146
W-4$4,260
W-5$4,404
O-1E$3,753
O-2E$4,098
O-3E$4,284
O-1$2,925
O-2$3,441
O-3$4,137
O-4$4,446
O-5$4,668
O-6$4,707
O-7$4,743
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Newport to Westchester County at W-3
is worth $2,508 a month — about 22 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.