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.
W-4 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,963 / month
Westchester County$6,963
Rome$2,958
Detroit$2,949
County Cost Group 830$2,946
Humboldt County$2,943
Coastal Maine$2,937
Reno$2,922
Spokane$2,922
Abilene$2,919
Dallas$2,919
Twenty Nine Palms MCB$2,919
Syracuse$2,901
Buffalo$2,895
Eugene$2,889
Fort Collins$2,886
Patuxent River$2,886
Nashville$2,877
Helena$2,874
College Station$2,871
St. Louis$2,871
Richmond$2,862
Rochester$2,859
Stevens Point$1,779
Syracuse is #128 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $5,184 a month —
$62,208 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 Westchester County at W-4
is worth $4,062 a month — about 38 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.