Ivan Rasmussen

Replied to in Global & Mobility · 3d ago

What three years of host-based pay for new assignments taught us

Did the 22% saving include the cost of the assignments you could not fill, or the delay in filling them? When we ran the numbers properly, two vacant plant mana

Replied to in Global & Mobility · 4d ago

How often are you adjusting salaries in Turkey with inflation where it is?

Worth separating the populations. Our sales and medical roles get two reviews because that market moves twice a year. Head office support roles moved back to on

Replied to in Global & Mobility · 2w ago

Tax equalisation: the four misunderstandings we now explain before anyone signs

Tax protection for some locations and equalisation for others gives you people choosing assignments by tax rate, and resentment from the engineer you sent to St

Replied to in Global & Mobility · 3w ago

Tax equalisation: the four misunderstandings we now explain before anyone signs

The settlement delay is the one that causes real hardship. We now cap what we will collect in one go at 10% of monthly net pay and spread the rest over up to 12

Replied to in Global & Mobility · 5mo ago

Do you quote annual pay with or without 13th-month salary in Brazil and the Philippines?

Whatever you choose, show the candidate both figures in the offer: monthly amount and total guaranteed annual. Half the declined offers I have investigated came

Replied to in Global & Mobility · 7mo ago

Unpopular view: the full balance sheet is the wrong default for most moves today

The pension point is a fair hit and something we handled badly at first. We now make an employer contribution to an international savings plan for local-plus mo

Replied to in Global & Mobility · 7mo ago

Unpopular view: the full balance sheet is the wrong default for most moves today

What nobody mentions is pensions. The balance sheet keeps people in their home plan. Our local-plus movers under 35 did not care at the time, and several are no

Replied to in Global & Mobility · 8mo ago

Pricing a country manager role in Uzbekistan when no survey covers it?

I would trust the recruiter more than the discount. For a first hire in a thin market, candidate expectations from five or six serious conversations are market

Replied to in Compensation · 9mo ago

Two surveys put the same senior engineering job 14% apart. Which do you believe?

Check the levelling as well. A 14% gap is suspiciously close to one level of difference. When we mapped both surveys' level descriptors to our own, one survey's

Asked in Global & Mobility · 12mo ago

Eight months in Monterrey: per diem, allowance or a light assignment package?

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