PCS compareSacramento · W-4 · with dep. · $3,144/mo
Sacramento$3,144/mo · $37,728/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-4 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,963 / month
Westchester County$6,963
Fort Myers Beach$3,213
Fort Pierce$3,204
JB Lewis-McChord$3,201
Aberdeen Proving Grounds$3,198
Portland$3,180
Whidbey Island$3,174
Port Angeles$3,159
Charlottesville$3,156
Great Lakes Navtracen$3,156
Philadelphia$3,156
Sacramento$3,144
Tampa$3,141
Traverse City$3,141
Oxford$3,135
Bridgeport$3,129
County Cost Group 850$3,129
Bremerton$3,126
Dover AFB$3,066
Corvallis$3,063
Fairbanks$3,045
Fresno$3,042
Stevens Point$1,779
Sacramento is #98 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $5,184 a month —
$62,208 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-4
is worth $3,819 a month — about 29 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.