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.
E-7 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,832 / month
Westchester County$5,832
Ventura$4,083
San Luis Obispo$4,047
Essex CO$4,032
Miami$4,026
Seattle$4,020
Portsmouth$3,975
Marin$3,939
Burlington$3,912
Hawaii County$3,876
Washington$3,855
Portland$3,825
Manchester$3,783
New Haven$3,768
West Palm Beach$3,738
Chicago$3,723
Newport$3,702
Vandenberg SFB$3,693
Fitchburg$3,687
Providence$3,657
County Cost Group 890$3,633
Riverside$3,603
Youngstown$1,491
Portland is #36 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,341 a month —
$52,092 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Portland0 – $5,322 / month
E-1$3,087
E-2$3,087
E-3$3,087
E-4$3,087
E-5$3,252
E-6$3,576
E-7$3,825
E-8$4,098
E-9$4,425
W-1$3,597
W-2$3,936
W-3$4,272
W-4$4,482
W-5$4,740
O-1E$3,876
O-2E$4,221
O-3E$4,524
O-1$3,297
O-2$3,573
O-3$4,260
O-4$4,830
O-5$5,235
O-6$5,280
O-7$5,322
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Portland to Westchester County at E-7
is worth $2,007 a month — about 7 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.