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
Minot AFB$2,508
Alexandria$2,496
Columbus AFB$2,493
Lafayette$2,484
Fort Huachuca$2,481
County Cost Group 730$2,478
Lake Charles$2,472
Fort Benning$2,469
Fort Bliss$2,466
Charleston$2,463
Peoria$2,463
San Antonio (JBSA)$2,457
Yuma$2,454
County Cost Group 720$2,451
Wichita$2,445
County Cost Group 710$2,424
Goodfellow AFB$2,415
Vance AFB$2,415
Springfield$2,412
County Cost Group 700$2,400
Bismarck$2,391
Youngstown$1,827
Peoria is #287 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 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-5
is worth $5,601 a month — about 311 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.