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-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,172 / month
San Francisco$5,172
Astoria$2,145
Kings Bay$2,145
Ogden$2,139
Myrtle Beach$2,136
Omaha$2,127
Raleigh$2,127
Carlisle Barracks$2,121
County Cost Group 810$2,109
Duluth$2,106
Wilmington$2,100
Syracuse$2,097
Nellis AFB$2,094
Eastern Panhandle$2,091
Gainesville$2,085
Provo$2,085
Barstow$2,058
Salem$2,058
Toledo$2,058
Cleveland$2,055
Twenty Nine Palms MCB$2,052
Chattanooga$2,043
Youngstown$1,218
Syracuse is #171 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,954 a month —
$47,448 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Syracuse0 – $3,246 / month
E-1$1,872
E-2$1,872
E-3$1,872
E-4$1,872
E-5$2,049
E-6$2,385
E-7$2,541
E-8$2,709
E-9$2,880
W-1$2,406
W-2$2,610
W-3$2,817
W-4$2,901
W-5$3,009
O-1E$2,571
O-2E$2,787
O-3E$2,919
O-1$2,097
O-2$2,382
O-3$2,811
O-4$3,039
O-5$3,198
O-6$3,225
O-7$3,246
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Syracuse to San Francisco at O-1
is worth $3,075 a month — about 11 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.