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
Abilene$2,841
Oxford$2,835
Beaufort$2,832
Austin$2,826
Bridgeport$2,826
Dallas$2,826
Traverse City$2,823
Astoria$2,817
Minneapolis$2,796
Great Lakes Navtracen$2,778
Portland$2,772
Whidbey Island$2,766
County Cost Group 850$2,763
Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,760
Rome$2,760
Bremerton$2,751
Charlottesville$2,733
Corvallis$2,733
Dahlgren$2,733
Atlanta$2,727
Coastal Maine$2,718
Youngstown$1,350
Portland is #104 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 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 San Francisco at W-1
is worth $2,700 a month — about 21 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.