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-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,454 / month
San Francisco$5,454
West Point$4,119
Oakland$4,113
Fort Monmouth$4,080
Perth Amboy$4,071
Florida Keys$4,056
Ventura$4,008
Cape Cod-Plymouth$3,999
Trenton$3,972
San Luis Obispo$3,948
Honolulu County$3,912
Seattle$3,906
Monterey$3,867
Hawaii County$3,837
Marin$3,819
Miami$3,792
Washington$3,759
Essex CO$3,744
Burlington$3,741
New Haven$3,723
Chicago$3,702
Portsmouth$3,690
Youngstown$1,335
Seattle is #27 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 Seattle0 – $4,875 / month
E-1$2,976
E-2$2,976
E-3$2,976
E-4$2,976
E-5$3,135
E-6$3,906
E-7$4,020
E-8$4,143
E-9$4,311
W-1$3,927
W-2$4,071
W-3$4,221
W-4$4,347
W-5$4,503
O-1E$4,041
O-2E$4,197
O-3E$4,371
O-1$3,231
O-2$3,897
O-3$4,215
O-4$4,554
O-5$4,797
O-6$4,836
O-7$4,875
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Seattle to San Francisco at E-6
is worth $1,548 a month — about 14 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.