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A per-diem claim, added up honestly.
Log each day or date range, enter the daily rate you're claiming, and get a clean total — with partial-day, first/last-day, meals and lodging handled if you need them.
Ochre does not maintain per-diem rates, and doesn't guess one for you. There is no live GSA, FCO or any other official daily-rate table baked into this page — keeping a table like that accurate is a real, ongoing commitment we haven't taken on. Get the current rate from your own tax authority or your employer's policy and type it in below.
General arithmetic only, not tax or reimbursement advice. This tool doesn't know whether your trip qualifies, or whether your employer or tax authority will accept the total — confirm that yourself before you submit a claim.
Reviewed 2026-08-11
Settings
There is no official-rate lookup here — you're always entering your own figures. (A maintained-source mode could be added later if Ochre ever takes on keeping a live rates table; it doesn't exist today.)
Days
| From | To (optional) | Location | Day type | Daily rate | Meals deduction | Lodging | Row total | Actions |
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Leave "To" blank for a single day. A date range counts every day in the range at that row's rate and day type.
Totals
Export & print
This page doesn't save anything — export the CSV or print your claim sheet before you close the tab.
Questions
Does Ochre know my country's official per-diem rate?
No. Ochre does not maintain a live table of government (e.g. GSA, FCO) or employer daily-allowance rates, and keeping one accurate over time is a real ongoing job we haven't taken on. So this calculator never guesses a rate for you — you type in the daily rate you're claiming, from your own tax authority or employer policy, and the tool does the arithmetic from there.
What's the first/last-day rule, and how do I set it?
Many per-diem schemes pay a reduced percentage — often around three-quarters — for the first and last day of a trip, since you weren't away the whole day. Set your own percentage in the "First/last-day percentage" field, then mark the relevant rows as "First/last day" in the day-type column.
How does the meals-provided deduction work?
If meals were provided for a day (e.g. a conference included lunch), you can deduct that from the day's allowance — either as a flat amount or as a percentage of that day's rate. Choose the mode per row and enter your own figure; nothing is deducted automatically.
Does this save my trip anywhere?
No — this page keeps everything in memory only, for as long as the tab stays open. Nothing is uploaded, and nothing is written to local storage. Export the CSV or print your claim sheet before you close the tab or you'll lose your entries.
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What this page cannot do
Working it out is not the same as claiming it.
A per-diem total is one sum. Getting paid for it means a document with a date, a client, and a record that it was settled. Ochre does not hold allowance rates — those are yours — but it will carry the amount as an invoice line or an expense, and track whether the money came back.
