The 1st point alone is reason enough. Its the transparency and I guess from the employer's perspective, especially since its a large firm, they must have some salary range for each position and need to maintain parity with locals.hairy legs wrote:8k basic salary + 8k allowances
Reasons
1) Your work / position is worth 8k and the 8k allowance is paid to you as you are not employed on local terms.
2) In other words, if they can employ someone locally with similar skills as you, they would have paid this person 8k
3) In the event that you are posted to another location, the company would likely pay you 8k+ $ living allowance of the other country
4) In the unlikely event that you are laid off, the company will compensate you with retrenchment benefits of 8k x number of months etc.
In summary, allowances can be taken away....
My feeling tends towards, thats tough. Local still lives with mum and dad back home. Expat has uprooted his whole life to take a chance.Wd40 wrote: Imagine how a local will feel if he is given 8k and you are given 16k.
I agree, demand and supply. But still corporates need to make sure that there isn't a huge income disparity within colleagues in the same organization doing the same job, so easy way out is to group these as additional allowances.JR8 wrote:My feeling tends towards, thats tough. Local still lives with mum and dad back home. Expat has uprooted his whole life to take a chance.Wd40 wrote: Imagine how a local will feel if he is given 8k and you are given 16k.
I appreciate that for some nationalities simply landing on these shores is reward enough, but that does not apply to most others.
I agree with WD40. At that salary, it's no wonder why. Is it a true 'Director' role, or is it one of those companies that suffer severe title inflation and half of the employees with 5-7yrs experience are all "Directors"? Are there significant bonuses you're not including? Where I work, a mid-level individual contributor could expect about the same compensation as yours after bonus not including any kind of allowances..ShouldBeFun wrote: Just to give you some background it will be a Director position in IT for an Engineering company that was sold for around 1 billions dollars 5 years ago. The position will have responsibility for all our APAC sites which up until now have been more akin to the wild west as far as computer security goes. They have been trying to recruit the position for over a year without success.
Wd40 and I were answering questions you didn't ask, namely if the compensation was fair. It's fair you didn't post. I'd recommend against details, or if you do, change your name later so people you know don't find you laterShouldBeFun wrote:Hi Guys,
Thank you for your replies.
So essentially it protects the company a little more if they wanted to get rid of me or needed to make some cuts![]()
When I said north of $8K I was referring to the $8K EP P1 minimum for salary. I didn't give an exact figure as not quite sure of the etiquette for this forum. It's actually a bit more than that however salary vs extras is still around 50/50 which initially seemed a bit odd to me.
Apologies for any confusion on that...
The deal at the moment would be that I have to find my own housing although the office will provide advice. It will just be my responsibility to do so. I would also be paid a relocation lump sum of around SGD $6K.
No bonuses that have been discussed so far. Maybe that is something for me to try to negotiate.
Thanks again, I do appreciate it!
Sounds reasonable for me to ask for the flat deposit on top.JR8 wrote:- Ask the employer to fund the flat depo. It would not be unusual on an expat package.
- What accommodation do you have now? What would you like here? Suggestion: think from that angle rather than ‘I have X, what can I afford’
- So pre your recce.... what is your current place like, back home?
- A boxer, lovely dogs, lucky you. You might be slightly restricted by some locals that consider anything beyond a shitzu a fighting dog... but there you go...
- Yeah large dogs here are not pets, they’re guard dogs, and perhaps 50% of the population regards dogs as ‘untouchable’.
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