PCS compareWashington · W-2 · with dep. · $3,894/mo
Washington$3,894/mo · $46,728/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-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $6,036 / month
Westchester County$6,036
Essex CO$4,158
Miami$4,131
Ventura$4,116
Portsmouth$4,098
San Luis Obispo$4,089
Seattle$4,071
Marin$3,990
Burlington$3,984
Portland$3,936
Manchester$3,897
Washington$3,894
Hawaii County$3,891
Newport$3,813
West Palm Beach$3,798
New Haven$3,786
Fitchburg$3,780
Providence$3,747
Chicago$3,729
Vandenberg SFB$3,714
County Cost Group 890$3,681
Riverside$3,627
Youngstown$1,560
Washington is #36 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,476 a month —
$53,712 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Washington0 – $4,770 / month
E-1$3,096
E-2$3,096
E-3$3,096
E-4$3,096
E-5$3,132
E-6$3,759
E-7$3,855
E-8$3,957
E-9$4,128
W-1$3,780
W-2$3,894
W-3$4,023
W-4$4,167
W-5$4,350
O-1E$3,870
O-2E$4,002
O-3E$4,197
O-1$3,213
O-2$3,753
O-3$4,020
O-4$4,410
O-5$4,692
O-6$4,731
O-7$4,770
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Washington to Westchester County at W-2
is worth $2,142 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.