PCS compareTwenty Nine Palms MCB · O-4 · $3,090/mo
Aberdeen Proving Grounds$3,396/mo · $40,752/yr
▲ RAISE+$306+$3,672/yr · like +$4,708 of salary
What this rate means
O-4 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $7,470 / month
Westchester County$7,470
Humboldt County$3,099
Buffalo$3,093
Eugene$3,090
Rome$3,090
Twenty Nine Palms MCB$3,090
Dover AFB$3,078
Patuxent River$3,075
Pittsburgh$3,075
Abilene$3,063
Youngstown$1,809
Twenty Nine Palms MCB is #125 of 338. The spread between
the dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $5,661 a month —
$67,932 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Twenty Nine Palms MCB0 – $3,342 / month
E-1$1,896
E-2$1,896
E-3$1,896
E-4$1,896
E-5$1,980
E-6$2,550
E-7$2,649
E-8$2,751
E-9$2,892
W-1$2,571
W-2$2,688
W-3$2,817
W-4$2,919
W-5$3,051
O-1E$2,664
O-2E$2,796
O-3E$2,940
O-1$2,052
O-2$2,544
O-3$2,814
O-4$3,090
O-5$3,291
O-6$3,318
O-7$3,342
Promoting to O-5 here adds $201 a
month. The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
01
Where you are stationed outweighs what you are paid. Moving from Twenty Nine Palms MCB to Westchester County at O-4 is worth $4,380 a month — about 22 promotions worth of housing allowance, at $201 per grade here.
02
Dependency status is worth 17% here. That is a status your finance office determines, not a box you tick — and it is the single largest lever on this page that is not a change of address.
03
None of it is taxed. $3,090 a month of BAH takes more than $3,090 of basic pay to match, which is why comparing a civilian salary against military base pay alone understates the gap.
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Things the rate table doesn't 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.