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
Frankfort$1,410
Charleston$1,404
County Cost Group 600$1,404
Columbus AFB$1,398
Hattiesburg$1,395
Sparta$1,395
County Cost Group 590$1,392
Springfield$1,389
County Cost Group 580$1,380
Columbia$1,377
Wichita$1,377
Albany$1,371
County Cost Group 570$1,371
Cannon AFB$1,365
Paducah$1,365
County Cost Group 560$1,362
Lake Charles$1,356
County Cost Group 550$1,353
County Cost Group 540$1,344
County Cost Group 530$1,338
Stevens Point$1,338
Anniston$1,185
Wichita is #314 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 Wichita0 – $2,478 / month
E-1$1,320
E-2$1,320
E-3$1,320
E-4$1,320
E-5$1,377
E-6$1,689
E-7$1,779
E-8$1,878
E-9$2,022
W-1$1,710
W-2$1,821
W-3$1,941
W-4$2,052
W-5$2,190
O-1E$1,797
O-2E$1,923
O-3E$2,073
O-1$1,422
O-2$1,686
O-3$1,938
O-4$2,232
O-5$2,445
O-6$2,463
O-7$2,478
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Wichita to San Francisco at E-5
is worth $3,750 a month — about 12 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.