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-8 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,333 / month
Westchester County$6,333
County Cost Group 780$2,292
Johnson City$2,292
Mountain Home AFB$2,292
Indianapolis$2,283
Rock Island$2,283
Fayetteville$2,280
Kansas City$2,277
Auburn$2,274
Wichita Fls$2,271
Pensacola$2,265
Roanoke$2,244
Fort Hood$2,238
Lincoln$2,238
County Cost Group 770$2,226
Fort Gordon$2,226
Fort Huachuca$2,226
Baton Rouge$2,223
Greensboro$2,220
Shreveport$2,208
Columbia$2,202
Toledo$2,193
Anniston$1,638
Roanoke is #223 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,695 a month —
$56,340 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Roanoke0 – $2,826 / month
E-1$1,743
E-2$1,743
E-3$1,743
E-4$1,743
E-5$1,911
E-6$2,079
E-7$2,157
E-8$2,244
E-9$2,379
W-1$2,094
W-2$2,193
W-3$2,304
W-4$2,409
W-5$2,541
O-1E$2,172
O-2E$2,286
O-3E$2,430
O-1$1,941
O-2$2,076
O-3$2,301
O-4$2,583
O-5$2,787
O-6$2,808
O-7$2,826
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Roanoke to Westchester County at E-8
is worth $4,089 a month — about 30 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.