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-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,472 / month
San Francisco$5,472
Fort Hood$1,938
Moody AFB$1,938
Sault Ste Marie$1,938
Morgantown$1,935
County Cost Group 740$1,914
Fort Drum$1,914
Wilkes-Barre$1,902
Paducah$1,896
Robins AFB$1,893
Holloman AFB$1,887
Topeka$1,884
County Cost Group 730$1,881
Brownsville$1,878
Peoria$1,878
Springfield$1,878
Oklahoma City$1,869
Sparta$1,866
Wright-Patterson AFB$1,866
Lafayette$1,860
Yuma$1,860
County Cost Group 720$1,857
Youngstown$1,350
Topeka is #270 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,122 a month —
$49,464 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Topeka0 – $2,655 / month
E-1$1,503
E-2$1,503
E-3$1,503
E-4$1,503
E-5$1,626
E-6$1,869
E-7$1,938
E-8$2,016
E-9$2,154
W-1$1,884
W-2$1,968
W-3$2,067
W-4$2,187
W-5$2,337
O-1E$1,950
O-2E$2,049
O-3E$2,211
O-1$1,662
O-2$1,866
O-3$2,064
O-4$2,385
O-5$2,619
O-6$2,637
O-7$2,655
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Topeka to San Francisco at W-1
is worth $3,588 a month — about 43 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.