PCS compareWhidbey Island · O-5 · with dep. · $3,402/mo
Whidbey Island$3,402/mo · $40,824/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.
O-5 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $8,064 / month
Westchester County$8,064
Knoxville$3,492
JB Lewis-McChord$3,471
Allentown$3,465
County Cost Group 840$3,459
Beaufort$3,438
Port Angeles$3,435
Fresno$3,414
Bremerton$3,411
Pittsburgh$3,408
Fairbanks$3,405
Whidbey Island$3,402
Tampa$3,390
Traverse City$3,390
Minneapolis$3,384
County Cost Group 830$3,366
Reno$3,357
Buffalo$3,324
Eugene$3,324
Norfolk$3,318
Wilmington$3,303
Patuxent River$3,300
Youngstown$1,827
Whidbey Island is #114 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 Whidbey Island0 – $3,453 / month
E-1$2,013
E-2$2,013
E-3$2,013
E-4$2,013
E-5$2,073
E-6$2,745
E-7$2,877
E-8$3,018
E-9$3,159
W-1$2,766
W-2$2,934
W-3$3,111
W-4$3,174
W-5$3,258
O-1E$2,901
O-2E$3,084
O-3E$3,189
O-1$2,157
O-2$2,736
O-3$3,105
O-4$3,279
O-5$3,402
O-6$3,429
O-7$3,453
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Whidbey Island to Westchester County at O-5
is worth $4,662 a month — about 173 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.