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.
O-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $8,064 / month
Westchester County$8,064
Fort Rucker$2,742
Jacksonville$2,736
Raleigh$2,736
County Cost Group 770$2,730
Mobile$2,730
Fort Wayne$2,727
Columbia$2,724
Malmstrom SFB$2,724
Brownsville$2,721
Akron$2,715
Ogden$2,715
Whiteman AFB$2,715
Robins AFB$2,709
Wright-Patterson AFB$2,703
Paducah$2,694
Grand Forks$2,682
Wilkes-Barre$2,676
Lincoln$2,667
China Lake$2,658
Terre Haute$2,655
Greenville$2,649
Youngstown$1,827
Ogden is #235 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $6,237 a month —
$74,844 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Ogden0 – $2,751 / month
E-1$1,932
E-2$1,932
E-3$1,932
E-4$1,932
E-5$2,118
E-6$2,229
E-7$2,271
E-8$2,325
E-9$2,418
W-1$2,244
W-2$2,295
W-3$2,364
W-4$2,436
W-5$2,538
O-1E$2,277
O-2E$2,349
O-3E$2,454
O-1$2,139
O-2$2,226
O-3$2,361
O-4$2,565
O-5$2,715
O-6$2,733
O-7$2,751
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Ogden to Westchester County at O-5
is worth $5,349 a month — about 297 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.