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
Kodiak Island$3,831
Milwaukee$3,831
Fort Detrick$3,804
San Bernardino$3,798
Ballston Spa$3,777
Corvallis$3,768
Sitka$3,768
Philadelphia$3,759
Asheville$3,723
Baltimore$3,711
Portland$3,702
Outer Banks$3,696
Astoria$3,672
County Cost Group 860$3,672
Oxford$3,663
Fort Pierce$3,648
Great Lakes Navtracen$3,645
Aberdeen Proving Grounds$3,630
Eglin AFB$3,612
Denver$3,588
County Cost Group 850$3,570
Youngstown$1,827
Portland is #85 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 Portland0 – $3,759 / month
E-1$2,193
E-2$2,193
E-3$2,193
E-4$2,193
E-5$2,379
E-6$2,751
E-7$2,853
E-8$2,961
E-9$3,138
W-1$2,772
W-2$2,898
W-3$3,033
W-4$3,180
W-5$3,360
O-1E$2,871
O-2E$3,012
O-3E$3,207
O-1$2,430
O-2$2,748
O-3$3,030
O-4$3,420
O-5$3,702
O-6$3,732
O-7$3,759
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Portland to Westchester County at O-5
is worth $4,362 a month — about 145 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.