US Updates Foreign Per Diem Rates, Effective March 1, 2025

Foreign per diem rates for more than 120 locations, including Bogota, Oslo, and Rio de Janeiro, were updated by the US State Department and take effect March 1.

Updates apply to cities and other locations in Belize, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Cyprus, Ecuador, Iceland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mauritius, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Syria, Tanzania, and UK, according to the department’s updated list.

The update to Oman is the first since March 1, 2015, according to previous versions of the list.

While the rates are the maximum tax-free reimbursement rates issued to US government employees traveling on ...