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Federal employees on the road for work-related travel could see their per diem dining dollars stretch a little further in fiscal 2019.
Starting Oct. 1, the daily travel allowance authorized by the General Services Administration will go up to $149 per day — $94 for lodging (up from $93 in 2018) and $55 for meals and incidental expenses (up from $51 last year).
The travel expense rates pertain to most of the continental U.S., or about 2,600 counties across the nation, according to GSA.
For 2019, the agency lists 325 “non-standard areas” (NSAs) with a higher adjusted per diem that accounts for higher regional prices — that’s down from 332 non-standard areas in 2018.
GSA added Marietta, Georgia (Cobb County) as a new NSA location for 2019, but removed 21 regions from the NSA list. Those regions, which now receive the standard per diem rate, are:
GSA bases its per diem rates on average daily rate (ADR) data from the lodging industry.
“The ADR is a widely accepted lodging-industry measure based upon a property’s room rental revenue divided by the number of rooms rented as reported by the hotel property to the contractor. This calculation provides GSA with the average rate in a given area,” GSA wrote Tuesday in its explanation of next year’s per diem rates.
Jory Heckman is a reporter at Federal News Network covering U.S. Postal Service, IRS, big data and technology issues.
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