Hi
My employer has offered me a secondment in Sydney. At first I was very excited but now I have seen the terms of the offer - not so much! It is an ex pat offer, where I would go for 2 to 3 years, then both I and employer would reevaluate. They have offered a salary of 200k aud, with todays exchange rate that is about 5k less than I make now. They won't assist with housing there, which means I would be paying rent there and mortgage here. I'm going to turn the offer down but if they were to respond and say 'well, what do you want', would the following sound unreasonable:
- Assistance with renting, up to $1000 per week.
- Salary increase to compensate for fact that Sydney is an expensive city and fact that I will be supporting my whole family on one salary.
- Assistance with childcare costs (we will have an extra year of nursery fees as kids don't start school till 5 and when ds does start we will have to pay fees of 4.5k pa as we are not citizens).
- Shipping of some goods, storage of rest.
- Flights home once per annum for myself, dh and two kids.
Obviously I would try to rent out my house here and my dh would look for work there. But I am reluctant to accept an offer that gambles my family's financial well being on renting out my house and my dh finding work quickly. I feel like it is only reasonable that if I uproot my whole family that I can support them financially.
Does this seem very unreasonable?
Thanks.