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-4 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $7,470 / month
Westchester County$7,470
Knoxville$3,243
Detroit$3,228
County Cost Group 840$3,225
Fresno$3,213
Fairbanks$3,210
Allentown$3,207
Beaufort$3,192
Minneapolis$3,183
College Station$3,165
County Cost Group 830$3,138
Orlando$3,135
Reno$3,120
Patrick SFB$3,108
Humboldt County$3,099
Buffalo$3,093
Eugene$3,090
Rome$3,090
Twenty Nine Palms MCB$3,090
Dover AFB$3,078
Patuxent River$3,075
Pittsburgh$3,075
Youngstown$1,809
Orlando is #118 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $5,661 a month —
$67,932 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Orlando0 – $3,303 / month
E-1$2,454
E-2$2,454
E-3$2,454
E-4$2,454
E-5$2,658
E-6$2,961
E-7$2,982
E-8$2,991
E-9$3,018
W-1$2,979
W-2$2,988
W-3$3,000
W-4$3,033
W-5$3,114
O-1E$2,985
O-2E$2,994
O-3E$3,045
O-1$2,700
O-2$2,958
O-3$2,997
O-4$3,135
O-5$3,255
O-6$3,282
O-7$3,303
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Orlando to Westchester County at O-4
is worth $4,335 a month — about 36 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.