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.
E-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,127 / month
San Francisco$5,127
Honolulu County$3,663
Miami$3,660
Hawaii County$3,594
Fort Monmouth$3,549
Ventura$3,537
Essex CO$3,477
West Point$3,468
Monterey$3,465
Trenton$3,465
Chicago$3,438
West Palm Beach$3,423
Perth Amboy$3,393
Vallejo$3,369
Juneau$3,354
Riverside$3,351
Vandenberg SFB$3,333
Portsmouth$3,321
Marin$3,303
San Bernardino$3,288
Portland$3,252
Indian Head Navordsta$3,249
Anniston$1,185
West Palm Beach is #30 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $3,942 a month —
$47,304 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at West Palm Beach0 – $4,860 / month
E-1$3,189
E-2$3,189
E-3$3,189
E-4$3,189
E-5$3,423
E-6$3,606
E-7$3,738
E-8$3,885
E-9$4,110
W-1$3,624
W-2$3,798
W-3$3,981
W-4$4,155
W-5$4,371
O-1E$3,765
O-2E$3,954
O-3E$4,191
O-1$3,453
O-2$3,603
O-3$3,975
O-4$4,443
O-5$4,782
O-6$4,824
O-7$4,860
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from West Palm Beach to San Francisco at E-5
is worth $1,704 a month — about 9 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.