Rayerschied is a municipality located in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It functions as an Ortsgemeinde, which is a type of local municipality that belongs to a larger collective municipality known as a Verbandsgemeinde.
The village is part of the Verbandsgemeinde Simmern-Rheinböllen, with its administrative seat situated in the town of Simmern. It serves as one of the constituent communities within this regional administrative structure in the Hunsrück region.