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-6 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,454 / month
San Francisco$5,454
Sitka$3,228
County Cost Group 880$3,204
Quantico$3,174
Edwards AFB$3,156
Beale AFB$3,132
Ann Arbor$3,078
Cape May$3,072
New London$3,072
Denver$3,063
Fort Detrick$3,063
Tampa$3,042
County Cost Group 870$2,997
Philadelphia$2,979
Sacramento$2,979
Orlando$2,961
Outer Banks$2,946
Stockton$2,934
Fort Myers Beach$2,919
JB Lewis-McChord$2,919
Baltimore$2,904
JB Elmendorf-Richardson$2,892
Youngstown$1,335
Tampa is #72 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,119 a month —
$49,428 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Tampa0 – $3,441 / month
E-1$2,520
E-2$2,520
E-3$2,520
E-4$2,520
E-5$2,709
E-6$3,042
E-7$3,066
E-8$3,075
E-9$3,123
W-1$3,063
W-2$3,072
W-3$3,084
W-4$3,141
W-5$3,231
O-1E$3,069
O-2E$3,078
O-3E$3,156
O-1$2,757
O-2$3,039
O-3$3,081
O-4$3,255
O-5$3,390
O-6$3,417
O-7$3,441
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Tampa to San Francisco at E-6
is worth $2,412 a month — about 101 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.