PCS comparePortsmouth · E-5 · with dep. · $3,321/mo
Portsmouth$3,321/mo · $39,852/yr
CURRENT
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-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,127 / month
San Francisco$5,127
West Point$3,468
Monterey$3,465
Trenton$3,465
Chicago$3,438
West Palm Beach$3,423
Perth Amboy$3,393
Vallejo$3,369
Juneau$3,354
Riverside$3,351
Vandenberg SFB$3,333
Portsmouth$3,321
Marin$3,303
San Bernardino$3,288
Portland$3,252
Indian Head Navordsta$3,249
Sitka$3,210
San Luis Obispo$3,198
Providence$3,195
Manchester$3,177
County Cost Group 890$3,156
Seattle$3,135
Anniston$1,185
Portsmouth is #36 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,942 a month —
$47,304 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Portsmouth0 – $5,445 / month
E-1$3,099
E-2$3,099
E-3$3,099
E-4$3,099
E-5$3,321
E-6$3,690
E-7$3,975
E-8$4,278
E-9$4,617
W-1$3,717
W-2$4,098
W-3$4,476
W-4$4,668
W-5$4,905
O-1E$4,032
O-2E$4,419
O-3E$4,704
O-1$3,372
O-2$3,687
O-3$4,461
O-4$4,983
O-5$5,355
O-6$5,400
O-7$5,445
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Portsmouth to San Francisco at E-5
is worth $1,806 a month — about 5 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.