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Mercer's Cost of Living data provides all the key elements you need to accurately calculate cost of living allowances (COLAs) as well as the supporting information required so that international assignees not only understand the results but also feel confident and satisifed with their compensation.
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Mobility: Cost of Living Calculator
Reliable
Our basket of goods and services reflects realistic spending habits established through extensive research.
Flexible
Choose the methodology that best adapts to your unique needs.
User friendly
Access your data via the modern interface for easier and faster calculations.
Features
Mercer’s Cost of Living calculator supplies insights for over 530 locations. Our surveys are conducted by professional researchers in each location. We have also carefully chosen vendors who represent only those outlets where your international assignees can buy goods and services of international quality.
Reliable:
Flexible:
- Multinational approach:
Using a blended international spending pattern, this approach assumes similar spending habits among international employees from various nationalities. By comparing prices of similar brands from comparable retail outlets in both home and host cities, you gain access to data that provides a consistent and accurate assessment of living costs across locations.
- Nationality-specific approach:
This approach tailors indices and differentials to reflect the unique spending patterns of employees based on their home locations. By applying distinct weights for each country, your international employees can maintain their familiar expenditure habits in their host cities, comparing local prices from their home country with those in their new environment.
User-friendly:
- Access your data via the modern interface of our Cost of Living Calculator for easier and faster COLA calculations and estimates right at your fingertips.
- Examine more than 200 goods and services as part of the cost of living index.
Our unique international basket of goods and services reflects realistic spending habits established through years of extensive international assignees research and updated at least biannually.
The benefit of two approaches: Choose the methodology that best adapts to your unique mobility program needs and allows you to determine competitive purchasing power for all your employees, wherever they’re moving from.
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Existing Mercer Mobility clients:
For existing clients log into your Mobility Exchange account here and purchase directly through the shop.
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Looking to design efficient assignment compensation packages?
Mercer’s Global Mobility consultants are available to advise you as you strive to manage your employees on international assignments.
View the data in action
See how more than 200 cities compare for the cost of living as an international assignee, plus highlights from our research in our annual Cost of Living City Ranking report.
