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-2 with dependents, nearest stations0 – $5,451 / month
San Francisco$5,451
Hampton$2,418
Cleveland$2,415
Grand Rapids$2,400
Chattanooga$2,394
Salem$2,394
Durham$2,388
Ocala$2,388
College Station$2,385
County Cost Group 810$2,385
Syracuse$2,382
Yakima$2,379
Carlisle Barracks$2,373
Omaha$2,373
New Orleans$2,370
Battle Creek$2,367
Myrtle Beach$2,358
Salt Lake City$2,355
Gainesville$2,352
Duluth$2,331
Fargo$2,328
Albuquerque$2,325
Youngstown$1,332
Yakima is #167 of 338. The spread between the
dearest and cheapest station at this grade is $4,119 a month —
$49,428 a year, untaxed.
Every pay grade at Yakima0 – $3,291 / month
E-1$1,731
E-2$1,731
E-3$1,731
E-4$1,731
E-5$1,923
E-6$2,382
E-7$2,499
E-8$2,625
E-9$2,793
W-1$2,403
W-2$2,550
W-3$2,706
W-4$2,823
W-5$2,970
O-1E$2,520
O-2E$2,682
O-3E$2,847
O-1$1,983
O-2$2,379
O-3$2,703
O-4$3,015
O-5$3,243
O-6$3,267
O-7$3,291
The pay chart moves this allowance far less than the map does.
Moving from Yakima to San Francisco at O-2
is worth $3,072 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.