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-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,451 / month
San Francisco$5,451
Sitka$3,225
County Cost Group 880$3,201
Quantico$3,171
Edwards AFB$3,153
Beale AFB$3,129
Ann Arbor$3,075
Cape May$3,069
New London$3,069
Denver$3,060
Fort Detrick$3,060
Tampa$3,039
County Cost Group 870$2,994
Philadelphia$2,976
Sacramento$2,976
Orlando$2,958
Outer Banks$2,943
Stockton$2,931
Fort Myers Beach$2,916
JB Lewis-McChord$2,916
Baltimore$2,901
JB Elmendorf-Richardson$2,889
Youngstown$1,332
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 O-2
is worth $2,412 a month — about 57 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.