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2009 worldwide cost of living survey results
How to compensate daily living costs...
Short-term assignments provide companies with a
valuable solution for the transfer of skills, know-how and resources. Companies are
competing in a global world with changes in technology, travel and communication networks,
and typical issues, such as dual career and family concerns, make short-term
assignments more attractive.
Short-term assignments present new challenges. Employees on short-term assignments are
usually not accompanied by their family, therefore their living costs are different
and can not be compensated as for long-term assignments. On the other hand, short-term
assignments last longer than business trips and require expenses of a wider nature,
such as personal care products, laundry, and entertainment.
Mercer provides short-term assignment allowance tables by host
cities that allow your company to grant a daily allowance in a fair and consistent manner.
The tables are available for each city covered by our worldwide cost-of-living reports,
and are updated twice a year.
Table Outline
The short-term allowance tables are designed to provide your company with reliable information relating to daily living costs
on short-term assignments.
The tables include the following categories with three prices reported (low, medium and high):
Meals - food at home and in restaurants
Laundry and Dry Cleaning
Personal Care
Entertainment - cinema, sport club and newspaper
Transportation
Telephone
Hotel or Furnished accommodation with services
Mercer's specialists are available for any advice on expatriate compensation and for
any assistance you might need when using Mercer Short-term
Assignment Allowance Tables.
Short-Term Assignment Allowance Tables available online through Mercer's Global HRMonitor?
Mercer's Short-Term Assignment
Allowance Calculator provides multiple flexible options to accurately determine
the daily living costs of your employees in more than 290 cities.
Pricing Options
Price per city |
One annual update |
US $270 / EUR 200 |
Two annual updates |
US $400 / EUR 300 |
Short Term Allowance (all standard cities) |
US $14,175 / EUR 10,500 |
STA survey request for a city not included in the standard Mercer order form.
The fee varies on the level of remoteness of the cities and difficulties in finding correspondent. |
US from $650 to $1,300 / from EUR 500 to EUR 1,000 |