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Global & MobilityRelatedWhat three years of host-based pay for new assignments taught usWe are a shipping and logistics group with roughly 6,000 employees and, at any time, around 70 people on long-term assignment. In 2023 we stopped offering the home-based balance sheet for new assignmeDalia Delaney · 5 replies · 4d ago
Global & Mobility · AnsweredRelatedSeven years into a three-year assignment in Singapore. How do we localise?Professional services firm, about 4,200 people. We have a partner-track director who went from London to Singapore in 2019 on a three-year assignment and is still there on full expatriate terms: housiXimena Hoffmann · 6 replies · 5mo ago

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Global & Mobility · AnsweredRelatedEight months in Monterrey: per diem, allowance or a light assignment package?I look after rewards for a German automotive supplier with about 9,500 employees. We are sending 12 engineers from Stuttgart to our plant in Monterrey for eight months to commission a new line. Our poIvan Rasmussen · 4 replies · 12mo ago

Global & MobilityRelatedWhy we ended split payroll for assignees in JapanFor years our assignees in Tokyo were paid 60% in yen through the local payroll and 40% in home currency from the home payroll. The idea was to protect savings and home commitments from currency movemMaya Chen · 2 replies · 2w ago

Global & MobilityReviewing hardship premiums: what evidence do you use beyond the provider's rating?mining services contractor with about 2,800 employees and roughly 90 expatriates across sites in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mongolia, Peru and Papua New Guinea. Location premiums run fromXimena Hoffmann · 0 replies · 5d ago

Global & Mobility · AnsweredRelatedComparing India and Mexico offers in a global range when so much pay sits in allowances?Our global ranges are expressed as annual base salary. That works badly in two of our largest countries. In India, pay is structured as cost to company, with basic salary often only 40% to 50% of the Theo Rasmussen · 2 replies · 12mo ago

Global & MobilityRelatedOur local-plus package for moves within Asia, with the numbersPosting our design because I found real examples hard to come by. We are a specialty chemicals business with about 3,000 people in Asia Pacific and around 50 intra-regional moves a year, mostly betweeTheo Yilmaz · 4 replies · 3mo ago

Global & Mobility · AnsweredRelatedDo you quote annual pay with or without 13th-month salary in Brazil and the Philippines?Our applicant tracking and HR systems hold one figure, annual base salary. That works for the UK and US. In Brazil and the Philippines, where a 13th-month payment is required by law, our recruiters haTheo Rasmussen · 3 replies · 5mo ago

Global & Mobility · AnsweredRelatedLump sum or managed relocation for an 18-month move from Warsaw to Dublin?We are a financial technology company with about 800 employees. We are moving six product managers from Warsaw to Dublin for 18 months to build a new team, after which they are expected to return. MosTessa Iversen · 4 replies · 6d ago

Global & MobilityRelatedTax equalisation: the four misunderstandings we now explain before anyone signsAfter a bad year of disputes I rewrote our assignment briefing. We are an energy services company with about 140 assignees, mostly between the UK, Norway, the UAE and the US, all tax equalised. The saElif Mensah · 6 replies · 3w ago

Global & MobilityRelatedLesson learned: mobile employees and trailing tax on equity nobody was trackingWe had an expensive surprise this year. A sales director was granted restricted shares while working in France, moved to our US office after a year, then to Singapore. When the award vested, part of tXimena Hoffmann · 3 replies · 3d ago

Global & MobilityRelatedCapping education allowances when international school fees rise 9% a year?Education is now the second largest line in our assignment budget after housing. We are a food and beverage company with 64 long-term assignees, 39 of whom have school-age children, mostly in ShanghaiMaya Chen · 2 replies · 2w ago

Global & MobilityRelatedWe fixed budget exchange rates in October and regretted it by FebruaryA lesson from last cycle. We are a consumer goods manufacturer with about 12,000 employees and a pay review that runs in group currency for budgeting. Finance fixes the conversion rates on 1 October fSonia Dubois · 3 replies · 1w ago

Benefits & WellbeingRelatedBenefits parity for 260 remote staff spread across 19 countries: where do you draw the line?We are a fully distributed software business. 260 people, 19 countries, entities in only four of them and the rest employed through an employer-of-record arrangement. Staff in our entity countries havDaniel Larsen · 4 replies · 1y ago

Global & MobilityRelatedTwo years on an employer-of-record model: the real costs and when we set up entitiesWhen we started hiring internationally we had 90 people and one entity. Today we are 340, with 61 employed through employer-of-record providers in 13 countries. Some figures for anyone weighing it up.Bianca Eriksen · 5 replies · 2y ago

Dubai ChapterEmiratisation and pay structuresnationals in skilled roles, and we have met them so far, though only by paying above our normal ranges. On average our Emirati hires at graduate and early-career level sit aboutJulia Ibrahim · 4 replies · 1mo ago

New Member Welcome · AnsweredRelatedI am the whole HR department and pay has just landed on my desk. Where first?I am the only HR person at a medical device manufacturer in Galway with 140 employees. Until now the managing director and the finance controller set pay between them. The managing director has decideVictor Ueda · 4 replies · 9mo ago

Benefits & Wellbeing · AnsweredRelatedEnhanced parental leave across six countries: one global minimum or local top-ups?Software company headquartered in Berlin, around 1,400 employees in Germany, the UK, Poland, Spain, the US and India. Statutory entitlements are so different that our current approach, statutory only Elif Kowalski · 3 replies · 7mo ago

Pay Equity & Transparency · AnsweredRelatedIs pro-rating bonus and allowances enough to show equal pay for part-time staff?We are a regional bank in Spain with about 3,600 employees, 11% of them part-time and nearly nine in ten of those women. Base pay is pro-rated cleanly. The trouble is everything else. Our sales incentAdrian Bauer · 3 replies · 1y ago

Pay Equity & Transparency · AnsweredRelatedSpreadsheet regression or a dedicated analysis tool for a 1,200-person company?I am a one-person compensation function at a 1,200-employee engineeringFarrah Oyelaran · 5 replies · 1y ago

Global & MobilityRelatedPeso offers in Argentina are out of date in weeks. Is anyone indexing pay to the dollar?We opened a 45-person engineering centre in Buenos Aires last year, part of a media technology company of about 1,300. Salaries are in pesos as required, reviewed quarterly, most recently by 18%. EvenTessa Iversen · 0 replies · 4d ago

Dubai ChapterRelatedHousing allowance benchmarks for 2027Rents in the areas where most of our staff live have risen sharply again this year, and renewal letters are forwarded to me almost weekly. Our housing allowance has been fixed by grade since 2023: 96,Julia Ibrahim · 1 reply · 2w ago

Benefits & Wellbeing · AnsweredRelatedFertility and family-building cover in Singapore: lifetime cap, cycles, or a flat allowance?Regional headquarters of a financial services group in Singapore, about 950 employees here and another 600 across Hong Kong, Malaysia and India. Our group medical plan excludes fertility treatment entBianca Walsh · 3 replies · 1w ago

New Member WelcomeRelatedSix years advising on pay, first month in-house, and it is a different jobI spent six years at a reward consultancy in Copenhagen, mostly on job evaluation and executive pay benchmarking for Nordic clients. Last month I joined a wind energy company as reward lead, about 2,8Ben Haddad · 5 replies · 9mo ago

Pay Equity & TransparencyRelatedRecruiters still ask for current salary where no ban applies. Do we stop everywhere?We are a contract research organisation with about 4,500 employees in 19 countries. In the US states where it is prohibited, and now across our EU countries, recruiters no longer ask candidates what tWren Zhang · 3 replies · 3w ago