PCS compareTraverse City · W-1 · with dep. · $2,823/mo
Traverse City$2,823/mo · $33,876/yr
CURRENT
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
Allentown$2,862
County Cost Group 860$2,847
Fresno$2,847
Fort Pierce$2,844
Abilene$2,841
Oxford$2,835
Beaufort$2,832
Austin$2,826
Bridgeport$2,826
Dallas$2,826
Traverse City$2,823
Astoria$2,817
Minneapolis$2,796
Great Lakes Navtracen$2,778
Portland$2,772
Whidbey Island$2,766
County Cost Group 850$2,763
Aberdeen Proving Grounds$2,760
Rome$2,760
Bremerton$2,751
Charlottesville$2,733
Youngstown$1,350
Traverse City is #100 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 Traverse City0 – $3,441 / month
E-1$2,037
E-2$2,037
E-3$2,037
E-4$2,037
E-5$2,070
E-6$2,802
E-7$2,901
E-8$3,003
E-9$3,123
W-1$2,823
W-2$2,943
W-3$3,072
W-4$3,141
W-5$3,231
O-1E$2,916
O-2E$3,051
O-3E$3,156
O-1$2,160
O-2$2,793
O-3$3,069
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 Traverse City to San Francisco at W-1
is worth $2,649 a month — about 22 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.