Depending on your application, if you are staying with your stock cat and stock exhaust, 2.5" will be just fine. But if you have a 3" DP and 3" cat along with it, you will want to have it 3" at the cat end and then tappered down to 2.5" on the catback end.
Also another thing to look out for is makings sure person doing the work does not cut off the catback cuppler. My place did that and it a ***** when I switched to my 3" DP. Another place had to fab up a new connector between the catback and the piping off the cat.