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.

An example

Locked until you create a free account. No card.

Pay grade at the report date

New duty ZIP

Your current housing allowance, a month

Off your current LES. We compare against it rather than guessing it.

Where will you live at the new station?

Quarters answers where you will live, not what you are entitled to draw, so it holds the new figure rather than calling it zero.

Report date

Only used to pick which year’s table to read.

With dependents

An example

Marcus · E-6 · with dependents · reporting to San Antonio (ZIP 78234)

−$120/mo

what the move does to the example's housing allowance

Marcus's numbers, not yours. The new rate is the published DoD figure for that ZIP; his CURRENT allowance is a designed number, not a read of anyone's LES.

Make your money work for the life you want. A free account is where it starts: paying down what you owe, building savings that hold, and understanding your own money well enough that it works for you.

Run it with your own grade, your own orders and your own duty-station ZIP, and the full comparison comes with it.

Free account, no card.

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, not financial advice. More military tools.