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-1E with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,931 / month
Westchester County$5,931
Staten Island$4,362
Los Angeles$4,332
Monterey$4,293
West Point$4,230
Oakland$4,218
Fort Monmouth$4,188
Cape Cod-Plymouth$4,179
Perth Amboy$4,143
Trenton$4,143
Honolulu County$4,137
Ventura$4,095
Essex CO$4,089
Miami$4,074
San Luis Obispo$4,062
Seattle$4,041
Portsmouth$4,032
Marin$3,960
Burlington$3,942
Hawaii County$3,879
Portland$3,876
Washington$3,870
Youngstown$1,521
Ventura is #26 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,410 a month —
$52,920 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 Westchester County at O-1E
is worth $1,836 a month — about 17 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.