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-7 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,832 / month
Westchester County$5,832
Dahlgren$2,763
Coastal Maine$2,760
County Cost Group 840$2,745
Knoxville$2,745
Atlanta$2,730
Reno$2,721
Nashville$2,712
Dover AFB$2,694
St. Louis$2,691
Savannah$2,685
Richmond$2,676
County Cost Group 830$2,670
Asheville$2,667
Spokane$2,658
Charleston$2,652
Detroit$2,652
Twenty Nine Palms MCB$2,649
Buffalo$2,631
Fort Collins$2,631
Pittsburgh$2,628
Patuxent River$2,625
Youngstown$1,491
Richmond is #125 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,341 a month —
$52,092 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Richmond0 – $3,276 / month
E-1$2,157
E-2$2,157
E-3$2,157
E-4$2,157
E-5$2,358
E-6$2,628
E-7$2,676
E-8$2,727
E-9$2,835
W-1$2,646
W-2$2,694
W-3$2,763
W-4$2,862
W-5$2,991
O-1E$2,682
O-2E$2,751
O-3E$2,883
O-1$2,400
O-2$2,625
O-3$2,760
O-4$3,030
O-5$3,231
O-6$3,255
O-7$3,276
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Richmond to Westchester County at E-7
is worth $3,156 a month — about 62 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.