PCS compareSacramento · W-3 · with dep. · $3,042/mo
Sacramento$3,042/mo · $36,504/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.
W-3 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,654 / month
Westchester County$6,654
County Cost Group 860$3,093
Outer Banks$3,090
Port Angeles$3,084
Tampa$3,084
Fort Pierce$3,081
Aberdeen Proving Grounds$3,075
Traverse City$3,072
Dover AFB$3,060
Bremerton$3,048
Charlottesville$3,048
Sacramento$3,042
Portland$3,033
Bridgeport$3,021
Great Lakes Navtracen$3,021
Philadelphia$3,018
County Cost Group 850$3,006
Orlando$3,000
Oxford$2,988
Fairbanks$2,943
Fresno$2,940
Patrick SFB$2,925
Anniston$1,689
Sacramento is #99 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,965 a month —
$59,580 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Sacramento0 – $3,576 / month
E-1$2,598
E-2$2,598
E-3$2,598
E-4$2,598
E-5$2,904
E-6$2,979
E-7$2,997
E-8$3,021
E-9$3,114
W-1$2,994
W-2$3,006
W-3$3,042
W-4$3,144
W-5$3,276
O-1E$3,000
O-2E$3,033
O-3E$3,165
O-1$2,922
O-2$2,976
O-3$3,039
O-4$3,318
O-5$3,525
O-6$3,552
O-7$3,576
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Sacramento to Westchester County at W-3
is worth $3,612 a month — about 35 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.