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-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $8,064 / month
Westchester County$8,064
County Cost Group 610$2,292
County Cost Group 600$2,280
Fort Sill$2,271
County Cost Group 590$2,268
Fort Polk$2,262
County Cost Group 580$2,253
County Cost Group 570$2,238
County Cost Group 560$2,226
Erie$2,226
Fort Leonard Wood$2,223
Sparta$2,223
County Cost Group 550$2,214
County Cost Group 540$2,205
Frankfort$2,199
County Cost Group 530$2,196
County Cost Group 520$2,190
Huntington$2,190
County Cost Group 510$2,184
Anniston$2,115
Monroe$2,040
Saginaw$2,007
Youngstown$1,827
Sparta is #324 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $6,237 a month —
$74,844 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 Westchester County at O-5
is worth $5,841 a month — about 389 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.