Before you accept a new position in Mexico City you need to find out what kind of salary you will need there so you don't end up regretting the move later on. Depending on your employer's offer, you may also need to explain why your salary expectation is what it is.
You can do this with our independent salary and cost-of-living calculations. You will find out how much should be your new salary in Mexico City with a salary conversion. You can then use this independent report to negotiate a fair compensation for your transfer. Bring hard facts into your negotiation.
Your report will calculate, based on your current salary, how much you should earn in Mexico City to keep your quality of life unchanged. You will get factual data on the cost-of-living difference between Mexico City and Bogotá, including a breakdown by category and a sample of prices in both cities.
With your salary calculation you will find out the salary that you will need in your new city to keep the same standard of living that you currently have in Bogotá.
Maybe just as important, you will have an independent assessment and hard data showing why you require that salary. This will give you a stronger position to negotiate a better offer. The calculation that you will get includes all the underlying price-data used to calculate the cost of living difference and the salary conversion. This is rock solid data that you can trust.
“I found the calculation very useful to get the confidence for entering in the salary adjustment negotiation with relevant figures.
I definitely recommend this service to anyone who is being relocated by their company.”
“This salary calculation was useful for an independent review of the proposed base salary in the new location.
It helped proceed the discussions in a smooth fashion.
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Our salary calculations are based on data collected by us in Expatistan.com, a collaborative database of prices that is constantly updated and improved. In the last week alone we've added more than 2,500 new prices to the database.
After aggregating, cleaning up and modelling this data, we cross check it and enhance it with public cost-of-living data compiled by international organizations like the United Nations, the World Bank and Eurostat.
The end results are up-to-date, reliable, and comprehensive salary calculations on cost-of-living differences and net income equivalences.
The calculation that you will get combines the biggest cost-of-living database in the world (which we run ourselves) and public data sources, such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the OECD and Eurostat. The PDF document provides detailed cost-of-living information, based on which we calculate the salary that you need in Mexico City to compensate for the difference in prices with Bogotá. You will know exactly how much more (or less) money you will need in Mexico City to live as good or better as you now live in Bogotá. Even better, you will be able to explain and justify your salary requirements during your negotiation.
You will be getting a comprehensive and reliable salary conversion for Mexico City. Get started by downloading a 100% free sample calculation. See for yourself how useful having the right data will be when relocating to Mexico City.
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