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-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,127 / month
San Francisco$5,127
Atlantic City$2,655
Madison$2,655
County Cost Group 870$2,652
Ballston Spa$2,634
Baltimore$2,610
Milwaukee$2,607
Outer Banks$2,604
New London$2,580
Ann Arbor$2,559
JB Lewis-McChord$2,556
Stockton$2,553
Minneapolis$2,541
Elizabeth City$2,508
Patrick SFB$2,502
County Cost Group 860$2,487
Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,478
Dallas$2,469
Oxford$2,445
Birmingham$2,439
Fresno$2,439
Fairbanks$2,436
Anniston$1,185
Stockton is #88 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,942 a month —
$47,304 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Stockton0 – $4,110 / month
E-1$2,445
E-2$2,445
E-3$2,445
E-4$2,445
E-5$2,553
E-6$2,934
E-7$3,072
E-8$3,219
E-9$3,432
W-1$2,955
W-2$3,132
W-3$3,315
W-4$3,477
W-5$3,672
O-1E$3,096
O-2E$3,288
O-3E$3,507
O-1$2,607
O-2$2,931
O-3$3,309
O-4$3,738
O-5$4,047
O-6$4,080
O-7$4,110
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Stockton to San Francisco at E-5
is worth $2,574 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.