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-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $8,064 / month
Westchester County$8,064
Cape Cod-Plymouth$5,196
Oakland$5,133
Fort Monmouth$4,986
Fitchburg$4,965
Honolulu County$4,959
Perth Amboy$4,926
Marin$4,863
Burlington$4,857
Seattle$4,797
Ventura$4,788
West Palm Beach$4,782
Manchester$4,707
Washington$4,692
Worcester$4,686
Newport$4,668
Warrenton$4,599
New Haven$4,590
Providence$4,533
County Cost Group 890$4,530
Hartford$4,395
Vandenberg SFB$4,356
Youngstown$1,827
West Palm Beach is #36 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $6,237 a month —
$74,844 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 Westchester County at O-5
is worth $3,282 a month — about 78 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.