Mobility: Quality of Living Calculator

Promote employment mobility and stay competitive with Mercer's Quality of Living Calculator. This essential tool provides reliable data to help you determine fair and consistent assignee allowances. Based on 39 factors across ten categories, our Quality of Living Reports equip you with everything needed to calculate hardship allowances for transfers to over 400 locations globally. "Hardship allowance" refers to the premium compensation for assignees facing significant declines in living conditions at their new host location. Make informed decisions and support your employees with confidence!

Key features:

• Extensive Coverage: Mercer evaluates over 400 location in more than 80 countries, ensuring a broad and diverse dataset for users to reference.
• Detailed Criteria Evaluation: Each city is assessed based on 39 specific criteria, which are rated on a scale from 0 to 10. These criteria are then grouped into ten main categories, allowing for a nuanced understanding of living conditions.
• Customizable Reports: Users can access tailored Quality of Living reports that can be customized to meet specific needs, making it easier to address unique organizational requirements.
• City-to-City Comparisons: The product includes a City-to-City Index Comparison feature, which summarizes the differences in quality of living between any two selected cities, providing valuable insights for relocation decisions.
• Quality-of-Living Calculator: An online calculator is available, enabling users to customize the Quality of Living index based on their specific parameters, enhancing the relevance of the data to their situation.
• Hardship Allowance Calculations: The data can be utilized to calculate hardship allowances for employee transfers, helping organizations recognize and address differences in living conditions between home and host locations.
• Practical Applications: The insights gained from the Quality of Living data can inform expatriate packages, including compensation approaches, allowances, and international tax considerations, ensuring that organizations can effectively support their employees during relocations.

The Quality of Living Index encompasses 39 different factors within the following 10 categories:

1. Consumer goods
2. Economic environment
3. Housing
4. Medical and health considerations
5. Natural environment
6. Political and social environment
7. Public services and transport
8. Recreation
9. Schools and education
10. Socio-cultural environment

Additional and optional factors include: communication facilities, travel time, extreme conditions, and the ability to select an additional hardship allowance percentage

Ordering:

Existing Mercer Mobility clients:
For existing clients log into your Mobility Exchange account here and purchase directly through the shop.

New customers:
Looking to compare cities and set hardship allowances for your internationally mobile workforce?

Mercer’s Global Mobility consultants are available to advise you as you strive to manage your employees on international assignments.