Assignment Hardship Insights

Convert location conditions into a clear premium

When you send employees to more challenging locations, you need a practical way to set additional pay that’s fair and easy to explain. Assignment Hardship Insights uses quality-of-living factors to generate consistent premium recommendations through an easy online calculator, so you can apply your policy the same way across locations and assignments.

What you get

Objective ratings across the factors that actually shape daily life for your assignees and their families:

• Climate
• Disease and sanitation standards
• Physical remoteness and ease of communication
• Political and social environment
• Violence and crime

All of it is delivered through the Quality of Living Calculator 2.0 — an easy-to-use online tool that gives you quick, flexible access to your data whenever you need it.

Pick the approach that fits your assignment population

Quality of Living data (point-to-point)

Calculate hardship allowances for transfers between more than 500 cities worldwide. You get recommendations based on a direct home-versus-host comparison, so the premium reflects the real change in conditions your assignee experiences — not a one-size-fits-all number.

Location Evaluation data (single premium per location)

Assess 140 locations worldwide against 14 factors that make up expatriate daily life. You set one premium recommendation for everyone assigned to a given location, regardless of where they come from — simpler to administer when you're moving larger populations.

How it can help

• Pay fairly and consistently. Every assignee is measured against the same objective standards, so similar situations get similar pay.
• Defend every number. When finance, leadership, or an assignee asks why a premium is what it is, you have credible third-party data behind it.
• Move faster. The online calculator turns what used to be a manual exercise into a quick, repeatable step.
• Unlock talent mobility. Confident, fair compensation makes it easier to get the right people to accept assignments in the hardest-to-fill locations.

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