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.
O-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,451 / month
San Francisco$5,451
West Palm Beach$3,603
Portland$3,573
Riverside$3,546
Manchester$3,522
County Cost Group 890$3,519
Vallejo$3,495
Fitchburg$3,465
Providence$3,453
Newport$3,441
JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst$3,438
Santa Fe$3,411
Willow Grove$3,393
Worcester$3,387
San Bernardino$3,378
Indian Head Navordsta$3,375
Warrenton$3,375
Juneau$3,369
Boulder$3,336
Hartford$3,327
Atlantic City$3,285
Fort G. G. Meade$3,273
Youngstown$1,332
Santa Fe is #49 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 Santa Fe0 – $4,086 / month
E-1$2,637
E-2$2,637
E-3$2,637
E-4$2,637
E-5$2,964
E-6$3,414
E-7$3,522
E-8$3,639
E-9$3,762
W-1$3,435
W-2$3,570
W-3$3,714
W-4$3,780
W-5$3,870
O-1E$3,540
O-2E$3,690
O-3E$3,795
O-1$3,024
O-2$3,411
O-3$3,711
O-4$3,891
O-5$4,023
O-6$4,056
O-7$4,086
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Santa Fe to San Francisco at O-2
is worth $2,040 a month — about 7 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.