PCS compareWest Point · E-5 · with dep. · $3,468/mo
West Point$3,468/mo · $41,616/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.
E-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,127 / month
San Francisco$5,127
Los Angeles$3,882
Kauai County$3,798
Oakland$3,759
Staten Island$3,735
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
Anniston$1,185
West Point is #26 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 Point0 – $5,340 / month
E-1$3,258
E-2$3,258
E-3$3,258
E-4$3,258
E-5$3,468
E-6$4,119
E-7$4,215
E-8$4,317
E-9$4,521
W-1$4,140
W-2$4,257
W-3$4,383
W-4$4,572
W-5$4,806
O-1E$4,230
O-2E$4,362
O-3E$4,608
O-1$3,549
O-2$4,113
O-3$4,380
O-4$4,884
O-5$5,253
O-6$5,298
O-7$5,340
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from West Point to San Francisco at E-5
is worth $1,659 a month — about 3 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.