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-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,454 / month
San Francisco$5,454
Whidbey Island$2,745
Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,742
Rome$2,739
Bremerton$2,730
Charlottesville$2,715
Corvallis$2,715
Dahlgren$2,715
Atlanta$2,709
Milwaukee$2,700
Coastal Maine$2,697
Reno$2,679
Nashville$2,673
County Cost Group 840$2,655
St. Louis$2,655
Savannah$2,652
Knoxville$2,649
Richmond$2,628
Charleston$2,616
Pittsburgh$2,604
Detroit$2,583
County Cost Group 830$2,580
Youngstown$1,335
Reno is #116 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,119 a month —
$49,428 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Reno0 – $3,408 / month
E-1$2,169
E-2$2,169
E-3$2,169
E-4$2,169
E-5$2,391
E-6$2,679
E-7$2,721
E-8$2,766
E-9$2,889
W-1$2,697
W-2$2,739
W-3$2,802
W-4$2,922
W-5$3,075
O-1E$2,724
O-2E$2,790
O-3E$2,946
O-1$2,433
O-2$2,676
O-3$2,799
O-4$3,120
O-5$3,357
O-6$3,384
O-7$3,408
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Reno to San Francisco at E-6
is worth $2,775 a month — about 66 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.