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-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,451 / month
San Francisco$5,451
Ketchikan$2,883
Kodiak Island$2,880
Patrick SFB$2,880
Ballston Spa$2,859
Port Angeles$2,856
Hampden County$2,847
Allentown$2,835
County Cost Group 860$2,826
Fort Pierce$2,826
Fresno$2,823
Oxford$2,811
Beaufort$2,808
Abilene$2,805
Dallas$2,805
Austin$2,796
Bridgeport$2,796
Traverse City$2,793
Astoria$2,787
Minneapolis$2,778
Great Lakes Navtracen$2,757
Portland$2,748
Youngstown$1,332
Oxford is #94 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,119 a month —
$49,428 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Oxford0 – $3,720 / month
E-1$2,271
E-2$2,271
E-3$2,271
E-4$2,271
E-5$2,445
E-6$2,814
E-7$2,877
E-8$2,943
E-9$3,096
W-1$2,835
W-2$2,904
W-3$2,988
W-4$3,135
W-5$3,318
O-1E$2,886
O-2E$2,973
O-3E$3,162
O-1$2,496
O-2$2,811
O-3$2,985
O-4$3,378
O-5$3,663
O-6$3,693
O-7$3,720
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Oxford to San Francisco at O-2
is worth $2,640 a month — about 15 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.