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-1 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,172 / month
San Francisco$5,172
Florida Keys$3,987
Cape Cod-Plymouth$3,942
Los Angeles$3,927
Kauai County$3,861
Oakland$3,807
Staten Island$3,798
Honolulu County$3,702
Miami$3,687
Hawaii County$3,630
Fort Monmouth$3,618
Ventura$3,600
West Point$3,549
Trenton$3,531
Monterey$3,519
Essex CO$3,516
Chicago$3,477
Perth Amboy$3,477
West Palm Beach$3,453
Vallejo$3,393
Riverside$3,384
Vandenberg SFB$3,378
Youngstown$1,218
Ventura is #24 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,954 a month —
$47,448 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Ventura0 – $4,866 / month
E-1$3,378
E-2$3,378
E-3$3,378
E-4$3,378
E-5$3,537
E-6$4,008
E-7$4,083
E-8$4,161
E-9$4,305
W-1$4,029
W-2$4,116
W-3$4,215
W-4$4,341
W-5$4,497
O-1E$4,095
O-2E$4,200
O-3E$4,365
O-1$3,600
O-2$4,002
O-3$4,212
O-4$4,545
O-5$4,788
O-6$4,830
O-7$4,866
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Ventura to San Francisco at O-1
is worth $1,572 a month — about 4 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.