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Our comprehensive range of data solutions is available to help clients meet any mobility program challenge. Whether you are sending one employee abroad for six months or managing a global community of expatriates on long-term assignments, you can rely on AIRINC for accurate and defensible cost-of-living recommendations.
Clients trust AIRINC's cost-of-living services because we use a consistent, rigorous research methodology for every city we survey. The compensation data we collect for emerging commercial centers such as Tashkent or Ho Chi Minh City is as accurate as the data we gather for major economic centers such as Paris or Sao Paulo. AIRINC is unique in the industry in conducting on-site pricing surveys using our own in-house professional staff. This methodology enables us to maintain a consistent and impartial approach to collecting and analyzing survey data. Our unparalled survey data coverage includes over 400 host cities, allowing us to support over 5,000 home-host assignment combinations.
Our data solutions are backed by a global network of experienced client services staff. Our goal is to build long-term relationships with our clients by understanding specific mobility needs, delivering the appropriate data to meet those needs, and providing exceptional service and support. We respond rapidly to data requests, help Human Resources Managers address issues raised in the field, and anticipate problems that may arise from economic events. Whether you wish to develop custom data solutions for different types of assignments or ensure that your data is delivered in appropriate formats for your payroll needs, AIRINC can help fulfill your requirements.
Expatriate Compensation
AIRINC offers a wide array of data services for cross-border transfers. Below is a product list categorized according to assignment type:
Per Diems & Lodging
AIRINC’s Per Diem Calculator enables clients to create customized per diems by including or excluding selected categories of expenditure. Learn More 
Cost-of-Living Allowances (COLA)
AIRINC uses its own in-house professional staff to conduct on-site pricing surveys in over 400 cities on 6 continents, allowing us to compute COLAs for more than 5,000 home-host transfer combinations.
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Rent & Utilities Guidelines
AIRINC provides comprehensive data for host city rent and utilities expenditures throughout the world. Our staff interviews local realtors, relocation professionals, and market experts to assess rental conditions in neighborhoods preferred by expatriates and their families. Learn More
Statistical Income Tax
An accurate determination of hypothetical and gross-up taxes is essential to the design of equitable expatriate compensation packages as well as the estimation of overall assignment costs. AIRINC helps companies accomplish these tasks by collecting and analyzing personal income tax data for over 230 tax jurisdictions and countries. Learn More
Hardship Evaluations
AIRINC’s proprietary hardship evaluation scoring system provides an objective assessment of the level of physical threat, discomfort, and inconvenience to expatriate families in any given location.
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Automobile Capital Costs
Many companies have subsidy programs for the purchase and sale of automobiles by expatriates. AIRINC provides capital cost data for a full range of vehicles typical in each country. Learn More
Permanent Transfer
AIRINC’s Permanent Transfer Calculator is an interactive online tool that calculates living cost differences for localizations, which are commonly referred to as permanent transfers or one-way transfers.
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AIRINC has partnered with Runzheimer International to provide domestic placement services. Runzheimer's domestic compensation and relocation services address cost-of-living issues related to relocation programs for transferred employees and salary programs for permanently domiciled employees. Learn More