When an employer pays for your housing in Georgetown, the figure in your contract is the only part of the arrangement you can still influence — and it is usually set against numbers nobody published. This article gives you the published ones, says plainly where the published record stops, and lists what to get in writing before the allowance is fixed.
What the published listings actually show
There is one published measurement of Georgetown asking rents in our reference data. Advertised asking rents from Century 21 Guyana, measured on 11 October 2026 from 20 listings:
- 25th percentile: USD 1,500 per month
- Median: USD 2,000 per month
- 75th percentile: USD 2,500 per month
The individual listings ran from USD 574 to USD 3,500 a month. Converted at 1 USD = 209.22 GYD, the Bank of Guyana rate for 7 October 2026.
The earlier version of this page put the range at a few hundred thousand Guyana dollars a month and converted it into dollars, in one place producing an amount that is not even a valid number. All of that is gone. If your allowance was set against figures like those, it was set against something nobody measured.
One agency, one region, twenty listings
Three limits travel with those quartiles, and an allowance negotiation is exactly where they matter:
- Asking prices, not agreed rents. What a landlord advertises and what a lease records are different numbers, and only the first is published.
- One agency, and the segment an arriving household shops. The sample leans to the expatriate end by construction.
- One region. All twenty sit in Demerara-Mahaica, the region containing Georgetown, so there is no district-level figure to point at.
Twenty listings is a small sample, and the count travels with the figure for that reason. Use the band as an order of magnitude for the city and nothing finer.
Utilities are where an "all-inclusive" promise usually is not
An asking rent does not include utilities, and a corporate package often does not either. One utility has a properly published figure. The Public Utilities Commission of Guyana publishes approved telecommunications rates, in a document dated 3 July 2026:
- GYD 8,399 per month (about USD 40) for the cheapest fiber plan in the approved table, a 20 Mbps plan.
- GYD 20,399 per month (about USD 98) for the most expensive fiber plan in the same table, at 1000 Mbps.
One caution the document itself creates: it marks some of its other sections VAT exclusive and says nothing about tax treatment for the fiber table. The figures above are reproduced as published, and whether tax sits on top is a question for the provider.
Why this article gives you no electricity figure
This is a deliberate omission and worth explaining, because the temptation is to fill the gap. The published residential rate we hold for Guyana Power and Light is its tariff class A, Residential: Lifeline, which applies to monthly consumption of 75 kWh or less, and carries a measurement date of 11 April 2021.
A furnished or serviced apartment with air conditioning does not sit in that band. Quoting a lifeline rate at a corporate tenant would be a precise number attached to the wrong household, which is a worse error than giving no number. So: ask the landlord which tariff class the meter is on, and ask for two recent bills for the actual unit.
What is not published at all
No serviced-apartment rate card, no corporate rate, and no furnished premium for Georgetown appears in any source we could read. That matters because those are precisely the products an employer-paid arrangement buys. There is therefore no published answer to "what does a serviced apartment cost here", and anyone giving you one to the dollar is estimating.
Nor is there any published figure for a service charge, a security deposit convention, or an agency commission. Treat all three as negotiable and unpriced until you have a written quote.
What to put in writing before the allowance is fixed
- Is the allowance a cap or a reimbursement, and who holds the lease — you or the employer?
- Which currency is the allowance set in, and who carries a move in the exchange rate? Most listings are priced in US dollars while local costs are not.
- What exactly is included: electricity, water, internet, generator fuel, housekeeping, security, parking. Get the list, not the word "inclusive".
- What happens at renewal if the asking rents move, and who negotiates.
- Two recent utility bills for the actual unit, before you sign.
- The tariff class on the electricity meter.
What expats should know
- The published band is USD 1,500 to USD 2,500 a month across the quartiles, from 20 listings on 11 October 2026.
- Individual listings ran from USD 574 to USD 3,500. The band is not a ceiling.
- These are asking prices from one agency in one region. There is no district-level figure.
- Internet is published: GYD 8,399 to GYD 20,399 per month across the approved fiber plans, dated 3 July 2026, with tax treatment unstated.
- We give no electricity figure, because the published residential rate we hold is a lifeline band for 75 kWh or less and does not describe a serviced apartment.
- No serviced-apartment or corporate rate card is published. Get a written quote.
- Settle the currency question before the allowance is fixed.
- "All-inclusive" is a word, not a list. Ask for the list.
Where to check
The rent quartiles are aggregated Century 21 Guyana listings held in our own reference data, with the measurement date and sample size above. The internet rates are from the Public Utilities Commission's approved telecommunications rates. The electricity tariff classes, including the lifeline band this article declines to use, are published by Guyana Power and Light. Converted at 1 USD = 209.22 GYD, the Bank of Guyana rate for 7 October 2026.
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