Originally Posted by Norman Stanley Fletcher
It is universal practice in numerous industries to pay foreign ex-pat staff more than the locals. There are very good reasons for this - not least of which is that you cannot get the necessary people to work for you if you do not.
Yeah, that's very true, but an employer has to be dumb as a bag of rocks to pay different salaries to employees doing the
exact same job with the exact same qualifications simply because one is an expat and the other is a local. This applies to any industry, not just aviation.
It's understandable if an employer has to bring in a temporary expat employee at a higher wage than the regular staff get (heck, in the first world, we call those folks 'consultants' or 'contractors'), but it's just asking for trouble to have
permanant staff on different salary scales based on nationality or residence.
I doubt if the amount of money saved (the differential) comes anywhere close to justifying the headaches that such a policy causes.