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
Lexington$1,536
Sault Ste Marie$1,536
Huntington$1,533
Springfield$1,527
Moody AFB$1,524
Seymour Johnson AFB$1,521
Beaumont$1,518
County Cost Group 710$1,515
Brownsville$1,503
Saginaw$1,503
Sumter$1,503
County Cost Group 700$1,497
Terre Haute$1,494
Wichita Fls$1,491
County Cost Group 690$1,482
Fort Leonard Wood$1,479
Lubbock$1,476
County Cost Group 680$1,470
Laughlin AFB$1,470
Erie$1,464
County Cost Group 670$1,461
Anniston$1,185
Sumter is #286 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 Sumter0 – $2,625 / month
E-1$1,440
E-2$1,440
E-3$1,440
E-4$1,440
E-5$1,503
E-6$1,947
E-7$1,986
E-8$2,025
E-9$2,139
W-1$1,968
W-2$2,001
W-3$2,055
W-4$2,169
W-5$2,316
O-1E$1,989
O-2E$2,043
O-3E$2,193
O-1$1,563
O-2$1,944
O-3$2,052
O-4$2,361
O-5$2,589
O-6$2,607
O-7$2,625
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Sumter to San Francisco at E-5
is worth $3,624 a month — about 8 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.