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To encourage mobility of the key talent required in hardship locations, organizations need reliable data to help calculate fair and consistent compensation or hardship premiums for the mobile employees.
Mercer's Quality of Living data helps you do just that and is streamlined via an easy-to-use online calculator that enables quick and flexible access to your data.
Request a free demo of Mercer's Quality of Living Calculator 2.0.
Key quality of living factors:
Climate
Disease and sanitation standards
Physical remoteness and ease of communications
Political and social environment
Violence and crime
Mercer offers two methodologies for calculating compensation for mobile employees relocating to a host site with lower quality of living than that in their home location.
Quality of Living data allows you to calculate hardship allowances for transfers between more than 500 cities worldwide.
Get recommendations on point-to-point comparison assignment premiums in order to recognize differences in home and host location conditions.
Location Evaluation data helps you assess 140 locations worldwide on 14 factors that make up daily life for expatriates and their families.
Assess living conditions against generally accepted standards to determine a single premium recommendation for all assignees in a given location, regardless where they come from.
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