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-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,472 / month
San Francisco$5,472
Eglin AFB$2,544
Houston$2,535
Rochester$2,535
Dahlonega$2,532
Wilmington$2,523
Dover AFB$2,511
Volusia County$2,511
County Cost Group 820$2,508
Eugene$2,499
Grand Haven$2,499
Phoenix$2,472
Panama City$2,460
Fairbanks$2,457
Charlotte$2,454
Fort Stewart$2,454
Barstow$2,451
Fort Carson$2,448
Fort Worth$2,442
Cleveland$2,439
Hampton$2,436
Grand Rapids$2,421
Youngstown$1,350
Phoenix is #149 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,122 a month —
$49,464 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Phoenix0 – $2,814 / month
E-1$2,061
E-2$2,061
E-3$2,061
E-4$2,061
E-5$2,289
E-6$2,457
E-7$2,475
E-8$2,484
E-9$2,517
W-1$2,472
W-2$2,481
W-3$2,493
W-4$2,535
W-5$2,622
O-1E$2,478
O-2E$2,487
O-3E$2,547
O-1$2,319
O-2$2,454
O-3$2,490
O-4$2,646
O-5$2,775
O-6$2,796
O-7$2,814
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Phoenix to San Francisco at W-1
is worth $3,000 a month — about 333 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.