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-2E with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,564 / month
Westchester County$6,564
County Cost Group 740$2,085
Wright-Patterson AFB$2,082
Camp Lejeune$2,073
White Sands MR$2,070
Wilkes-Barre$2,070
County Cost Group 730$2,049
Fort Benning$2,049
Topeka$2,049
Sumter$2,043
Yuma$2,034
Peoria$2,028
County Cost Group 720$2,025
Lafayette$2,025
Morgantown$2,022
Paducah$2,019
Gulfport$2,016
Fort Leonard Wood$2,010
County Cost Group 710$2,004
Moody AFB$1,995
Springfield$1,989
Springfield$1,989
Anniston$1,671
Peoria is #276 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,893 a month —
$58,716 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Peoria0 – $2,493 / month
E-1$1,506
E-2$1,506
E-3$1,506
E-4$1,506
E-5$1,572
E-6$1,860
E-7$1,926
E-8$1,995
E-9$2,109
W-1$1,878
W-2$1,953
W-3$2,043
W-4$2,133
W-5$2,250
O-1E$1,935
O-2E$2,028
O-3E$2,151
O-1$1,614
O-2$1,857
O-3$2,040
O-4$2,283
O-5$2,463
O-6$2,481
O-7$2,493
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Peoria to Westchester County at O-2E
is worth $4,536 a month — about 37 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.