Worldwide Cost of Living

City-to-city cost benchmarking

Compare the cost of living in 173 cities globally. Updated biannually, the service provides direct city-to-city comparisons which can be customised according to your needs.

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Why Worldwide Cost of Living?

Product benefits

Use interactive features to customise city-to-city comparisons tailored to your needs.
A standardised format enables easy comparisons between cities, and a robust methodology delivers information you can rely on.
Access a comprehensive dataset to gain a complete picture of each city’s price levels and business costs.
Download data and tables straight to your desktop to feed the raw figures into your own compensation models and software applications.

What’s included?

Data for over 400 individual price points across 200 goods and services in 173 cities worldwide.
Background information on the local environment in each city, from its Liveability score to the housing market.
An online salary calculator enabling you to build cost of living allowances into compensation packages.

Use Worldwide Cost of Living to:

Adjust mobility compensation plans by assessing background information on the local environment in each city.
Determine rewards structures country by country by leveraging our online salary calculator and our multiple local indices.
Benchmark benefits schemes on a global scale that meet the requirements of different employees groups.
Anticipate and define business allowances with data available for hotels, taxis and meals, including a suggested range for daily business trip allowances.

This service is relevant for:

Corporates

Financial institutions

Legal and insurance firms

Governments

Human resources

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