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-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,036 / month
Westchester County$6,036
Wilkes-Barre$1,986
Frankfort$1,983
Wright-Patterson AFB$1,977
Morgantown$1,974
China Lake$1,968
County Cost Group 730$1,968
Topeka$1,968
Little Rock$1,965
Moody AFB$1,962
Akron$1,956
Paducah$1,956
Peoria$1,953
Yuma$1,950
Beaumont$1,947
Sault Ste Marie$1,947
County Cost Group 720$1,944
Lafayette$1,944
Springfield$1,932
Laughlin AFB$1,923
County Cost Group 710$1,920
Springfield$1,917
Youngstown$1,560
Paducah is #276 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,476 a month —
$53,712 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Paducah0 – $2,730 / month
E-1$1,293
E-2$1,293
E-3$1,293
E-4$1,293
E-5$1,365
E-6$1,875
E-7$1,932
E-8$1,992
E-9$2,136
W-1$1,896
W-2$1,956
W-3$2,034
W-4$2,175
W-5$2,355
O-1E$1,941
O-2E$2,019
O-3E$2,205
O-1$1,434
O-2$1,872
O-3$2,031
O-4$2,415
O-5$2,694
O-6$2,712
O-7$2,730
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Paducah to Westchester County at W-2
is worth $4,080 a month — about 52 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.