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
Boise$2,295
State College$2,295
Lemoore NAS$2,292
Louisville$2,292
Eastern Panhandle$2,271
Columbus$2,259
Rock Island$2,259
Jacksonville$2,256
Pensacola$2,253
Ogden$2,244
Provo$2,244
Cheyenne$2,238
Coos Bay$2,238
Corpus Christi$2,238
County Cost Group 790$2,229
Des Moines$2,229
Indianapolis$2,229
Rapid City$2,229
Bismarck$2,223
Nellis AFB$2,223
Fort Huachuca$2,214
Youngstown$1,350
Provo is #192 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 Provo0 – $2,943 / month
E-1$1,929
E-2$1,929
E-3$1,929
E-4$1,929
E-5$2,058
E-6$2,229
E-7$2,337
E-8$2,457
E-9$2,592
W-1$2,244
W-2$2,385
W-3$2,532
W-4$2,613
W-5$2,718
O-1E$2,355
O-2E$2,511
O-3E$2,631
O-1$2,085
O-2$2,226
O-3$2,529
O-4$2,745
O-5$2,901
O-6$2,925
O-7$2,943
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Provo to San Francisco at W-1
is worth $3,228 a month — about 23 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.