Military · orders

Your next assignment, before you get there.

Orders move your housing allowance, and the new rate is published before you report. This prices that one change from the DoD table: what you draw now, what the new duty ZIP pays, and the difference each month.

One number, on purpose. Your base pay and the deductions on your LES are not part of this answer, so nothing here is a forecast of your whole check.

Pay grade at the report dateNew duty ZIPYour current housing allowance, a monthOff your current LES. We compare against it rather than guessing it.

Where will you live at the new station?Off base, drawing BAHGovernment quartersNot decided yetQuarters answers where you will live, not what you are entitled to draw, so it holds the new figure rather than calling it zero.

Report dateOnly used to pick which year’s table to read.With dependents

Rates come from the published DoD/DTMO table for the report year. When the new rate cannot be sourced, or you have not settled where you will live, the figure is held rather than guessed. Educational and directional only, not financial advice. More military tools.