Anywhere from 50-100$ a day for me. Depends on the city and if Breakfast/Lunch are provided or not. Usually those two meals are provided for me, thus its 50-75, if not its usually abour 100.

Right now, we're actual expenses within reason, but there've been rumblings about switching to a flat per diem for meals and incidentals as a way of reducing accounting costs for processing expense reports.

I cannot abide by the GSA per diem for lodging. At one of my recent client sites, for example, the government rate at the Homewood Suites is $89 and the GSA limit is $74. I'd end up having to eat the difference every time. And many properties won't extend the GSA rate to contractors.

The GSA domestic per diem for meals, however, I think is reasonable as a total, but I don't like their breakdown by meal. $39-$49 for most of my client sites, $64 when I visit our headquarters each month, is fine with me. I'd rather have one nice meal, however, than three mediocre ones.

$120 a day - I usually average spend $30. The $120 figure doesn't include $$ too wine and dine clients.

$45/day to use as you please. Anything above that, you are on your own. If I'm on reimbursement instead of per diem, $45/day, one alcoholic beverage per receipt. The rest is all on me.

No per diem, just "reasonable expenses." I think the expense reporting system flags anything over $15 breakfast, $25 lunch, $40 dinner, but your boss just needs to give approval of anything greater. Overall, a very good and fair system. I try to eat cheap for breakfast and lunch then have a nice $30-40 dinner, which I think is fair.

No receipts necessary except over $25.

No per diem, just "reasonable expenses."
All food expenses covered, including wine, pre/post dinner cocktails.

No receipts necessary except over $25.

(All travelers are directors/owners of our company.)

The same, except:
Receipts for EVERYTHING.
Lunch is not paid for on weekdays.

My previous company was reasonable expenses, portal to portal. I got mileage to and from airport, lunch at the airport, etc. Heavy flyers could expense RCC memberships, but later reversed it and said you had to pay for it yourself. Our ops manager didn't buy my argument that I probably bought 5 sodas and munchables a week at the airport at $6 each. That's $30 per week just for snacks. At 50 weeks per year it comes to $1500. BUT, they won't allow a $400 RCC membership where I can get this stuff for free.

My other pet gripe was when I would go to ballgames when travelling. On one hand, it would be acceptable for me to go to TGIFriday's, and have a cocktail, ful dinner and dessert, costing $40. If I went to the ballgame and paid $15 for a hog dog and soda, I couldn't expense the general admission ticket to the game. :confused:

FWIW, I was responsible for multi million dollar budgets and project pursuits.

Dollars chasing dimes. :rolleyes:

$2,000 a day. :)

What kind of $ would these be? As there is nothing in your profile to indicate where you live it could be Monopoly money for all we know!

I belive his/her company policy may state that 2 bottles of Cristal are allowable at each meal.

There is some silly regulations in the IRS guidlines for Domestic travel/reimbursement. My former company switched over to it.

Lets say you go to Atlanta on business. Atlanta per this IRS Publication 1542 defines Atlanta as a $38 (old publication is all I have) city. Other cities in GA are a different per-diem.

Since the projects tended to be long term, we were in one city for many months.

The IRS publication stated that if you were allowed more than this city by city amount .. .part of the per-diem would be considered income to the employee for tax purposes. So everyone had to follow this rule since the company refused to process any tax forms for the differential.

There got to be an arguement on short term vs long term staff on a project. Long term (in a corporate apartment) HAD to take this IRS ruled per-diem. Short term staff who stayed in hotels could bill 'actual expenses' that were reasonable (approved by the client). So some people gouged the client by staying 8 months in a hotel just to avoid the apartment-dictated low per-diem (and the hotels would be more $$ than monthly corporate apartments).

Out of the US .. it was totally different and varied based on the location .. pretty reasonable for most foreign cities.

Not sure if this ruling/publication currently is in force ..

Any job openings do you think? May I register my interest now - I will do anything within reason -then again -maybe not. Think of my liver - I know I shouldn't drink more than a bottle a day!

US dollars - the last time I checked, at least. ;)

Only Krug, my friend. :D

$45 per day for meals and incidentals. More is possible if you save receipts and can explain it.