Per diem · rates of GSA FY2027
GSA per diem rates, FY2027 and FY2026
Type a city, a county, a GSA area or a ZIP code: the twelve monthly lodging maximums, the M&IE rate and the value of each meal appear at once.
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Standard CONUS rate: maximum per diem, FY2027
$181 a day
Standard CONUS rate: $113 lodging + $68 M&IE
Lodging maximum by month ($113 all year)
| Oct$113 | Nov$113 | Dec$113 | Jan$113 | Feb$113 | Mar$113 |
| Apr$113 | May$113 | Jun$113 | Jul$113 | Aug$113 | Sep$113 |
Fiscal year 2027: October 2026 to September 2027. Taxes on the room are reimbursed on top.
M&IE $68 a day, and what each meal is worth
| Breakfast | $16 |
| Lunch | $19 |
| Dinner | $28 |
| Incidental expenses | $5 |
| First and last day (75%) | $51.00 |
GSA FY2027 files published September 3, 2026. A county not listed by GSA takes the standard rate. How this is calculated.
From October 1, 2026 to September 30, 2027, the federal per diem in most of the continental United States is $181 a day: $113 for lodging and $68 for meals and incidental expenses, up from $110 of lodging in fiscal year 2026. 295 non-standard areas pay more, each with its own lodging maximum for every month and one of five M&IE rates between $68 and $92. New York City tops out at $358 a night in the fall, and the highest maximum of the year is $499 in Park City, UT. Rates follow counties, not city names, so a town GSA never mentions can still sit in a listed county. The lookup above reads the GSA files of both fiscal years, places cities in their county with Census data, and shows the FY2026 table for a trip that started before October 1, 2026.
Per diem rates by state, FY2027
- Alabama
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming
How to read a GSA rate
A GSA rate has two parts that behave differently. Lodging is a ceiling per night: you are reimbursed what the room cost, up to the maximum of that month, and the taxes on the room come on top. M&IE is a flat daily amount that covers meals and the small tips around them; nobody asks for meal receipts, but the first and last day pay 75% and a meal paid by someone else is taken off. Add the two parts and you get the "maximum per diem" figure the card shows, which is what a full day costs the government at most.
The fiscal year runs from October to September, so GSA tables are named after the year in which they end. FY2027 is the one in force today. A trip from late September into October uses both tables, which the trip calculator handles night by night.
Why most of the country pays the standard rate
GSA gives a county its own rate when hotel prices there run above the standard figure; everywhere else, $113 and $68 apply. That is why a large share of counties in the Plains or the South have no line in the table, and why North Dakota has no non-standard area at all. In FY2027, Allentown, PA dropped back to the standard rate.
The five M&IE tiers are uneven in practice: 102 area names sit at $80, 71 at $86, 68 at $74, 33 at $92 and only 17 at the bottom tier among the non-standard areas. 149 areas change their lodging maximum during the year: beaches peak in summer, ski counties in winter, desert resorts in spring.
New York City, NY: per diem for a stay
Lodging + M&IE at the federal maximum
$1,396
| Lodging: 3 × $358 | $1,074 |
| M&IE: 2 travel days at $69 | $138 |
| M&IE: 2 full days at $92 | $184 |
Lodging taxes on top; provided meals are deducted in the full calculator.
Searching by city, county or ZIP code
GSA writes its table by key city and county. If you search by a city name, the tool first looks at the GSA area names and county lists, then at 2,387 cities of 15,000 people or more placed in their county from Census files. Typing a five-digit ZIP code uses the GSA ZIP files directly, which is the most exact method when a city spreads over two counties. A few areas stop at city limits rather than county lines: Santa Monica inside Los Angeles County, Sedona across two Arizona counties. Their own name finds them.
FY2027 compared with FY2026
The headline change is the standard lodging rate, $110 to $113. The M&IE tiers did not move: GSA last revised them in FY2025 and plans the next review for FY2028. Inside the non-standard areas most lodging maximums rose a few dollars, some fell, and the seasons of some resorts shifted by a month. Each state page prints both years side by side so that a traveler with a September voucher and another with an October one can each find their figure.
Outside the 48 states
Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam and the other territories are not in the GSA table: the Department of Defense sets those rates, and the Department of State sets foreign ones. The OCONUS page explains where to read them and turns them into a trip total with the OCONUS meal breakdown.