Compensation Glossary
Welcome to ERI SalaryExpert's compensation glossary, your resource for commonly used terms, formulas, and phrases related to compensation.
Expatriate Premium
This term is used to describe any number of supplemental payments which is made to an international assignee / expatriate employee in order to compensate for any hardship, education of dependent children in their mother tongue or other conditions that may be specific to the location.
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