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
Paducah$1,872
Holloman AFB$1,866
Topeka$1,866
County Cost Group 730$1,860
Brownsville$1,857
Peoria$1,857
Oklahoma City$1,851
Springfield$1,851
Wright-Patterson AFB$1,848
Lafayette$1,842
Sparta$1,842
Yuma$1,842
County Cost Group 720$1,836
Goodfellow AFB$1,833
Auburn$1,830
Fort Polk$1,827
Springfield$1,821
Terre Haute$1,821
Malmstrom SFB$1,818
County Cost Group 710$1,815
Frankfort$1,812
Youngstown$1,332
Sparta is #277 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 Sparta0 – $2,250 / month
E-1$1,380
E-2$1,380
E-3$1,380
E-4$1,380
E-5$1,395
E-6$1,845
E-7$1,875
E-8$1,905
E-9$1,971
W-1$1,866
W-2$1,887
W-3$1,926
W-4$1,989
W-5$2,073
O-1E$1,878
O-2E$1,917
O-3E$2,001
O-1$1,455
O-2$1,842
O-3$1,923
O-4$2,094
O-5$2,223
O-6$2,238
O-7$2,250
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Sparta to San Francisco at O-2
is worth $3,609 a month — about 45 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.