US/Canada - $75 per day for meals and incidentals.
International - $150 per day for meals and incidentals.

M8

$70 maximum per day for meals. We must submit receipts for everything. No receipt then no reimbursement.

Pier diem was $45.

It's now $0.

I need a job.

$39 for meals.

Whatever it costs, within reason.

My old company was receipts for everything. My new one is receipts only when item is over $75.

Freakin' awesome. It cuts down on paperwork a lot! All I need to send in is air, hotel, and rental car typically. Everything else I can throw away.

It's also easy to average meals. i.e. if I have an expensive meal, I'll balance it by a cheap one, and file as 2 medium meals. Everyone is happy.

Yeah but keep those receipts...you never know what the tax man will accept as deducatble come next April...

I love per diem systems -- instead of the whole flight home being spent preparing expenses it could be used for something productive. Like sleeping!

We just switched in November from a receipts system to a per diem system and I am already loving it. I still have to itemise business expenses of course, but it is a lot easier to find folios from hotels and rental cars than it is to scrounge around for a receipt from a street hotdog vendor that you grabbed a quick bite from!

$15 breakfast
$25 lunch
$50 dinner

Kindof weird I guess broken out by meal.

Really weird :confused:

Unbelievable...
 

$30/day, all receipts. I always knew the company was one of the more stingy ones out there... but give me a break.

I've taken to finding out where Whole Foods, Wild Oats, Co-Ops, etc. are wherever I go and making sure I get a room with a fridge. $30 will usually buy you enough food for a day, and it's better than eating fast food.

Reevesis, you should consider a career in spying. See thread below:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=507588

$35 per diem + $5 for misc travel expenses. I get free breakfast in the morning at the Hilton, and make PB&J for lunch (I carry it on :)). Then I can eat whatever for dinner, but have lately just been ending up at Subway.

One company I do some work with (and I'm actually doing my last run for them in a couple of weeks) only allows $40/day. I do the free breakfast strategy when I can and then carry power bars and drinks so that I can have a quick lunch. I try to do a sit-down, nice dinner in the evenings. 40 bucks certainly is not very generous and depending on where I'm at, it's tough to stay within.

My current project has a per diem of $65 AUD (roughly $48 USD) for food and dry cleaning. Most of my colleagues have apartments with kitchens here, so it isn't too hard to keep to $65. Given my love for good food, coupled with a dislike for cooking, I tend to exceed it.

My previous firm had us expense actual meals costs and didn't set any specific limits, but expenses had to be somewhat resonable, though the occasional splurge was OK.

While I liked the freedom to spend more, the convenience of not having to track receipts leads me to prefer the per diem.

-m

My company is "reasonable expenses"; reciepts for things over $25 but they don't seem to care too much under $75 for dinner. Billed as costs, though, so no $$ recovery. Do those of you with specific per diems get to pocket the difference?