Hardship or just a change of scene?
ECAAdapt offers a transparent and detailed system for calculating location or “hardship” allowances.

Accommodating your policy
ECAAdapt allows you to select region-to-city allowances or city-to-city allowances, so that depending on your policy the system reflects the level of detail that you need.

Quick and easy
ECA’s system provides an immediate “banding” for the host location, based in part on the circumstances of the home location. With the banding comes ECA’s recommended allowances, expressed as a percentage of home gross salary.

Transparent and consistent
ECAAdapt also gives breakdowns of the scoring given to a number of different categories contributing to the overall score which translates to banding and allowances.

Categories include:

• Climate
• Health services
• Language and culture
• Goods and services
• Isolation
• Social network and leisure
• Housing, utilities and education
• Personal security
• Socio-political tensions

Reflective of actual change
ECAAdapt scores are not absolute, but reflect the degree to which an expatriate will need to adjust to a new location – hence they vary not only according to which country will play host, but also the location the assignee considers home.

Extensive location coverage
ECAAdapt provides information on 278 locations.

User-friendly print-outs and reports
ECAAdapt comes complete with formatted reports for printing and saving as pdfs. It also allows you to export data to spreadsheets and word processing programs should you want to make adjustments, or present the information differently.