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
Charlottesville$2,712
Corvallis$2,712
Dahlgren$2,712
Atlanta$2,706
Milwaukee$2,697
Coastal Maine$2,694
Reno$2,676
Nashville$2,670
County Cost Group 840$2,652
St. Louis$2,652
Savannah$2,649
Knoxville$2,646
Richmond$2,625
Charleston$2,613
Pittsburgh$2,601
Detroit$2,580
County Cost Group 830$2,577
Asheville$2,568
Elizabeth City$2,559
Norfolk$2,556
Brunswick$2,553
Youngstown$1,332
Savannah is #120 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 Savannah0 – $3,297 / month
E-1$2,235
E-2$2,235
E-3$2,235
E-4$2,235
E-5$2,415
E-6$2,652
E-7$2,685
E-8$2,718
E-9$2,823
W-1$2,670
W-2$2,697
W-3$2,748
W-4$2,853
W-5$2,991
O-1E$2,688
O-2E$2,736
O-3E$2,874
O-1$2,451
O-2$2,649
O-3$2,745
O-4$3,036
O-5$3,249
O-6$3,273
O-7$3,297
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Savannah to San Francisco at O-2
is worth $2,802 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.