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Handbook F-15 Revision: Fiscal Year 2009 Travel Per Diem Rates Updates

Effective October 1, 2008, Handbook F-15, Travel and Relocation, is revised with new travel per diem rates.

Handbook F-15, Travel and Relocation

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Part 4 Appendixes Appendix A Rates

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A-2 Travel Per Diem Rates A-2.1 What Per Diem Includes

[Revise A-2.1 to read as follows:]

The Postal Service’s per diem rates are updated annually. The per diem allowance includes all charges for meals; laundry and cleaning expenses; all fees and tips to waiters, bellboys, and porters; and other similar expenses.

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A-2.4 High Cost Localities

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[Revise the table in A-2.4 to read as follows:]

 

State and Key City

County and/or Other Location

Rate ($)

Standard CONUS rate applies to all destinations not specifically listed

$39

Alabama

Birmingham

Jefferson and Shelby

$44

Huntsville

Madison and Limestone

$44

Mobile

Mobile

$49

Arizona

Grand Canyon/Flagstaff

Coconino (except the city limits of Sedona), Yavapai

$44

Kayenta

Navajo

$54

Phoenix/Scottsdale

Maricopa

$59

Sedona

City limits of Sedona

$64

Tucson

Pima

$49

Arkansas

Hot Springs

Garland

$49

Little Rock

Pulaski

$54

California

Antioch/Brentwood/Concord/Lafayette/Martinez/Pleasant Hill/Richmond/San Ramon/Walnut Creek

Contra Costa

$49

Bakersfield/Delano (Naval Weapons Center and Ordinance Test Station, China Lake)

Kern

$44

Barstow/Ontario/Victorville

San Bernadino

$59

Benicia/Dixon/Fairfield/Vacaville/Vallejo

Solano

$44

Death Valley

Inyo

$49

Eureka/Arcata/McKinleyville

Humboldt

$54

Fresno

Fresno

$54

Los Angeles

Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura, Edwards AFB

$64

Mammoth Lakes

Mono

$54

Mill Valley/San Rafael/ Novato/Corte Madera/ Sausalito/Tiburon/Larkspur

Marin

$54

Modesto

Stanislaus

$49

Monterey

Monterey

$64

Napa

Napa

$64

Oakland

Alameda

$59

Palm Springs

Riverside

$59

Point Arena/Gualala

Mendocino

$54

Redding

Shasta

$44

Sacramento

Sacramento

$59

San Diego

San Diego

$64

San Francisco

San Francisco

$64

San Luis Obispo

San Luis Obispo

$54

San Mateo/Foster City/ Belmont

San Mateo

$54

Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara

$59

Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz

$54

Santa Monica

City limits of Santa Monica

$64

Santa Rosa

Sonoma

$64

South Lake Tahoe

El Dorado

$54

Stockton

San Joaquin

$44

Sunnyvale/Palo Alto/San Jose

Santa Clara

$59

Tahoe City

Placer

$59

Truckee

Nevada

$59

Visalia/Lemoore

Tulare and Kings

$49

West Sacramento

Yolo

$44

Yosemite National Park

Mariposa

$64

Colorado

Aspen

Pitkin

$64

Boulder/Broomfield

Boulder and Broomfield

$54

Colorado Springs

El Paso

$44

Crested Butte/Gunnison

Gunnison

$49

Denver/Aurora

Denver, Adams, Arapahoe, and Jefferson

$49

Douglas County

Douglas

$54

Durango

La Plata

$49

Fort Collins/Loveland

Larimer

$44

Glenwood Springs/Grand Junction

Garfield/Mesa

$49

Silverthorne/Breckenridge

Summit

$54

Steamboat Springs

Routt

$54

Telluride

San Miguel

$59

Vail

Eagle

$64

Connecticut

Bridgeport/Danbury

Fairfield

$64

Cromwell/Old Saybrook

Middlesex

$44

Hartford

Hartford

$49

Lakeville/Salisbury

Litchfield

$64

New Haven

New Haven

$64

New London/Groton

New London

$64

Putnam/Danielson/Storrs/Mansfield

Windham/Tolland

$59

Delaware

Dover

Kent

$44

District of Columbia

District of Columbia

Washington, DC (also the cities of Alexandria, Falls Church, and Fairfax, and the counties of Arlington and Fairfax in Virginia; and the counties of Montgomery and Prince George's in Maryland) (See also Maryland and Virginia)

$64

Florida

Cocoa Beach

Brevard

$44

Fort Lauderdale

Broward

$54

Fort Myers

Lee

$49

Fort Pierce

Saint Lucie

$49

Fort Walton Beach/De Funiak Springs

Okaloosa and Walton

$44

Gainesville

Alachua

$44

Jacksonville/Jacksonville Beach/Mayport Naval Station/Fernandina Beach/Atlantic Beach

Duval, City of Jacksonville, and Nassau

$49

Key West

Monroe

$64

Leesburg

Lake

$44

Miami

Miami-Dade

$59

Naples

Collier

$64

Ocala

Marion

$44

Orlando

Orange

$49

Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Jupiter, Palm Beach Gardens, Palm Beach, Palm Beach Shores, Singer Island, and West Palm Beach

Palm Beach

$64

Panama City

Bay

$49

Pensacola/Pensacola Beach

Escambia

$49

Punta Gorda

Charlotte

$44

Sarasota

Sarasota

$49

St. Augustine

St. Johns

$54

Stuart

Martin

$49

Tallahassee

Leon

$44

Tampa/St. Petersburg

Pinellas and Hillsborough

$54

Vero Beach

Indian River

$49

Georgia

Atlanta

Fulton, DeKalb, and Cobb

$49

Duluth/Norcross/Lawrenceville/Braselton

Gwinnett

$44

Jekyll Island/Brunswick

Glynn

$49

Peachtree City/Jonesboro/Morrow/Newnan

Fayette/Coweta/Clayton

$44

Savannah

Chatham

$49

Idaho

Boise

Ada

$49

Coeur d'Alene

Kootenai

$59

Sun Valley/Ketchum

Blaine

$59

Illinois

Bollingbrook/Romeoville/Lemont/Lockport/Homer Glen/Mokena/New Lenox

Will

$44

Chicago

Cook and Lake

$64

Elgin/Aurora

City of Elgin, Kane

$44

Oak Brook Terrace

Dupage

$49

O’Fallon/Fairview Heights/Collinsville

Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Jersey, Macoupin, Madison, Monroe and St. Clair

$59

Springfield

Sangamon

$49

Indiana

Bloomington

Monroe

$44

Brownsburg/Plainfield

Hendricks

$44

Hammond/Munster/Merrillville

Lake

$44

Indianapolis/Carmel

Marion, Hamilton, Fort Benjamin Harrison military base

$44

South Bend

St. Joseph

$44

Valparaiso/Burlington Beach

Porter

$49

Iowa

Des Moines

Polk

$44

Kansas

 

 

Kansas City/Overland Park

Wyandotte and Johnson

$44

Wichita

Sedgwick

$49

Kentucky

Boone County

Boone

$44

Kenton County

Kenton

$44

Lexington

Fayette

$49

Louisville

Jefferson

$49

Louisiana

Baton Rouge

East Baton Rouge Parish

$44

Covington/Slidell

St. Tammany Parish

$49

Lafayette

Lafayette Consolidated Government

$49

New Orleans

Orleans, St. Bernard, Jefferson and Plaquemine Parishes

$59

Maine

Bar Harbor

Hancock

$49

Kennebunk/Kittery/Sanford

York

$54

Portland

Cumberland/Sagadahoc

$44

Rockport

Knox

$49

Maryland

Aberdeen/Bel Air/Belcamp/Edgewood

Harford

$44

Annapolis

Anne Arundel

$64

Baltimore City

Baltimore City

$59

Baltimore County

Baltimore

$54

Cambridge/St. Michaels

Dorchester and Talbot

$54

Columbia

Howard

$49

Ocean City

Worcester

$64

Washington DC Metro Area

Montgomery and Prince George's

$64

Massachusetts

Andover

Essex

$59

Boston/Cambridge

Suffolk, City of Cambridge

$64

Burlington/Woburn

Middlesex

$59

Falmouth

City limits of Falmouth

$49

Hyannis

Barnstable

$59

Martha's Vineyard

Dukes

$64

Nantucket

Nantucket

$64

Pittsfield

Berkshire

$59

Plymouth/Taunton/New Bedford

Plymouth/Bristol

$54

Quincy

Norfolk

$44

Springfield

Hampden

$44

Worcester

Worcester

$49

Michigan

Ann Arbor

Washtenaw

$44

Benton Harbor/St. Joseph/Stevensville

Berrien

$49

Charlevoix

Charlevoix

$49

Detroit

Wayne

$49

Holland

Ottawa

$44

Kalamazoo/Battle Creek

Kalamazoo/Calhoun

$44

Mackinac Island

Mackinac

$49

Mount Pleasant

Isabella

$44

Petoskey

Emmet

$54

Pontiac/Auburn Hills

Oakland

$44

Traverse City and Leland

Grand Traverse and Leelanau

$44

Minnesota

Duluth

St. Louis

$49

Eagan/Burnsville/Mendota Heights/Lakeville/Inver Grove Heights

Dakota

$49

Minneapolis/St. Paul

Hennepin and Ramsey

$64

Rochester

Olmsted

$44

Mississippi

Grenada

Grenada

$44

Gulfport/Biloxi

Harrison

$44

Hattiesburg

Forrest and Lamar

$49

Robinsonville

Tunica

$44

Southaven

Desoto

$44

Starkville

Oktibbeha

$44

Missouri

Kansas City

Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte

$49

St. Louis

St. Louis, St. Louis City, and St. Charles, Crawford, Franklin, Jefferson, Lincoln, Warren, and Washington

$59

Montana

Big Sky/West Yellowstone

Gallatin

$49

Butte

Silver Bow

$44

Helena

Lewis and Clark

$44

Missoula/Polson/Kalispell

Missoula/Lake/Flathead

$44

Nebraska

Omaha

Douglas

$49

Nevada

Incline Village/Crystal Bay/Reno/Sparks

Washoe

$49

Las Vegas

Clark

$64

Stateline/Carson City

Douglas/Carson City

$64

New Hampshire

Concord

Merrimack

$44

Conway

Carroll

$49

Durham

Strafford

$44

Lebanon/Lincoln/West Lebanon/Franconia/Hanover/Holderness Sunapee/Waterville Valley/North Woodstock/Plymouth

Grafton and Sullivan

$49

Manchester

Hillsborough

$44

Portsmouth

Rockingham

$44

New Jersey

Atlantic City/Ocean City/Cape May

Atlantic and Cape May

$54

Belle Mead

Somerset

$44

Cherry Hill/Moorestown

Camden and Burlington

$44

Eatontown/Freehold

Monmouth

$49

Edison/Piscataway

Middlesex

$44

Newark

Essex, Bergen, Hudson, and Passaic

$49

Parsippany

Morris

$49

Princeton/Trenton

Mercer

$44

Springfield/Cranford/New Providence/Westfield/Clark/Summit/Linden

Union

$49

New Mexico

Albuquerque

Bernalillo

$49

Los Alamos

Los Alamos

$49

Santa Fe

Santa Fe

$59

Taos

Taos

$59

New York

Albany

Albany

$49

Buffalo

Erie

$54

Floral Park/Garden City/Glen Cove/Great Neck/Roslyn

Nassau

$64

Glens Falls

Warren

$49

Ithaca/Waterloo/Romulus

Tompkins and Seneca

$44

Kingston

Ulster

$49

Lake Placid

Essex

$54

Manhattan (includes the boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island)

Bronx, Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond

$64

Niagara Falls

Niagara

$44

Nyack/Palisades

Rockland

$49

Poughkeepsie

Dutchess

$54

Queens

Queens

$59

Riverhead/Ronkonkoma/Melville/Smithtown/Huntington Station/Amagansett/East Hampton/Montauk/Southhampton/Islandia/Commack/Medford/Stony Brook/Hauppauge/Centereach

Suffolk

$64

Rochester

Monroe

$44

Saratoga Springs/Schenectady

Saratoga and Schenectady

$44

Syracuse

Onondaga

$44

Tarrytown/White Plains/New Rochelle/Yonkers

Westchester

$59

West Point

Orange

$44

North Carolina

Asheville

Buncombe

$49

Atlantic Beach/Morehead City

Carteret

$49

Chapel Hill

Orange

$49

Charlotte

Mecklenburg

$49

Durham

Durham

$49

Fayetteville

Cumberland

$49

Greensboro

Guilford

$44

Kill Devil

Dare

$54

New Bern/Havelock

Craven

$44

Raleigh

Wake

$54

Wilmington

New Hanover

$49

Winston-Salem

Forsyth

$44

Ohio

Akron

Summit

$49

Canton

Stark

$44

Cincinnati

Hamilton and Clermont

$54

Cleveland

Cuyahoga

$54

Columbus

Franklin

$49

Dayton/Fairborn

Greene, Darke, and Montgomery

$44

Hamilton

Butler and Warren

$49

Mentor

Lake

$44

Toledo

Lucas

$44

Oklahoma

Oklahoma City

Oklahoma

$49

Tulsa

Tulsa, Creek, Osage, and Rogers

$44

Oregon

Ashland/Crater Lake

Jackson/Klamath

$44

Beaverton

Washington

$44

Bend

Deschutes

$44

Eugene/Florence

Lane

$44

Lincoln City

Lincoln

$49

Portland

Multnomah

$49

Seaside

Clatsop

$54

Pennsylvania

Allentown/Easton/Bethlehem

Lehigh and Northampton

$44

Bucks County

Bucks

$59

Chester/Radnor/Essington

Delaware

$44

Gettysburg

Adams

$54

Harrisburg

Dauphin

$44

Hershey

City of Hershey

$44

Lancaster

Lancaster

$49

Malvern/Frazer/Berwyn/Phoenixville

Chester

$49

Mechanicsburg

Cumberland

$54

Montgomery County

Montgomery

$59

Philadelphia

Philadelphia

$64

Pittsburgh

Allegheny

$54

Reading

Berks

$44

State College

Centre

$44

Rhode Island

East Greenwich/Warwick/North Kingstown

Kent and Washington

$49

Jamestown/Middletown/Newport

Newport

$64

Providence

Providence

$54

South Carolina

Charleston

Charleston, Berkeley, and Dorchester

$54

Columbia

Richland

$44

Greenville

Greenville

$49

Hilton Head

Beaufort

$54

Myrtle Beach

Horry

$54

South Dakota

Rapid City

Pennington

$44

Sturgis/Spearfish

Meade, Butte, and Lawrence

$44

Tennessee

Brentwood/Franklin

Williamson

$49

Chattanooga

Hamilton

$44

Knoxville

Knox

$49

Memphis

Shelby

$49

Nashville

Davidson

$54

Texas

Arlington/Fort Worth/Grapevine

Tarrant County and City limits of Grapevine

$44

Austin

Travis

$54

Beaumont

Jefferson

$49

Corpus Christi

Nueces

$44

Dallas

Dallas County and City of Dallas

$59

El Paso

El Paso

$44

Galveston

Galveston

$49

Houston (L.B. Johnson Space Center)

Montgomery, Fort Bend, and Harris

$59

Laredo

Webb

$44

McAllen

Hidalgo

$44

Plano

Collin

$49

Round Rock

Williamson

$44

San Antonio

Bexar

$54

South Padre Island

Cameron

$44

Utah

Park City

Summit

$64

Provo

Utah

$49

Salt Lake City

Salt Lake and Tooele

$54

Vermont

Burlington/St. Albans

Chittenden and Franklin

$49

Manchester

Bennington

$59

Montpelier

Washington

$54

Stowe

Lamoille

$64

White River Junction

Windsor

$54

Virginia

Abington

Washington

$49

Blacksburg

Montgomery

$54

Charlottesville

City of Charlottesville, Albemarle, Greene

$44

Chesapeake/Suffolk

Cities of Chesapeake and Suffolk

$44

Chesterfield/Henrico Counties

Chesterfield/Henrico

$49

Fredericksburg

City of Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania

$54

Hampton City/Newport News

Cities of Hampton City and Newport News

$44

James City and York Counties, Williamsburg

James City and York Counties, City of Williamsburg

$54

Loudoun County

Loudoun

$59

Lynchburg

Campbell, Lynchburg City

$44

Norfolk/Portsmouth

Cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth

$59

Richmond

City of Richmond

$54

Roanoke

City limits of Roanoke

$44

Stafford/Prince William Counties

Stafford/Prince William

$44

Virginia Beach

City of Virginia Beach

$54

Wallops Island

Accomack

$49

Warrenton

Fauquier

$44

Washington DC Metro Area

Cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, and Falls Church; Arlington and Fairfax

$64

Washington

Anacortes/Camano Island/Coupeville/Mount Vernon/La Conner/Burlington/Friday Harbor/Oak Harbor

Skagit Island, San Juan

$59

Bremerton

Kitsap

$59

Everett/Lynnwood

Snohomish

$54

Ocean Shores

Grays Harbor

$44

Olympia/Tumwater

Thurston

$49

Port Angeles/Port Townsend

Clallam and Jefferson

$59

Seattle

King

$64

Spokane

Spokane

$49

Tacoma

Pierce

$59

Vancouver

Clark, Cowlitz, and Skamania

$49

West Virginia

Charleston

Kanawha

$44

Morgantown

Monongalia

$44

Shepherdstown

Jefferson

$44

Wheeling

Ohio

$44

Wisconsin

Appleton

Outagamie County

$44

Brookfield/Racine

Waukesha/Racine

$44

Green Bay

Brown

$44

Lake Geneva

Walworth

$54

Madison

Dane

$54

Milwaukee

Milwaukee

$44

Sheboygan

Sheboygan

$44

Sturgeon Bay

Door

$49

Wisconsin Dells

Columbia

$64

Wyoming

Cody

Park

$44

Evanston/Rock Springs

Sweetwater/Uinta

$44

Gillette

Campbell

$49

Jackson/Pinedale

Teton and Sublette

$54

Sheridan

Sheridan

$49

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We will incorporate these revisions into the next printed edition of Handbook F-15 and into the next update of the online version accessible on the Postal Service™ PolicyNet website: