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List of most expensive cities for expatriate employees

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These are lists of the world's most expensive cities for expatriate employees (not residents), according to the Mercer,^[1] ECA International^[2] and Xpatulator.com ^[3] cost-of-living surveys. Other surveys from online collaborative indices, such as Numbeo,^[4] Expatistan,^[5] or Eardex^[6] are not covered by this article.

Various factors enter into a city's cost-of-living for expatriate employees, such as monetary value, consumer confidence, investment, interest rates, exchange rates of the country's currency, and housing costs. This list does not account for cost-of-living savings accrued to local citizens through government-subsidized housing, health care, education, differences in taxation, and many other factors irrelevant to expatriates. Cost of living may be much higher for expatriates than for local residents in a developing country, especially if expatriates expect a standard of living similar to a developed country.

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Rank	City	Country
1	Hong Kong	China
2	Zürich	Switzerland
3	Geneva
4	Basel
5	Bern
6	Tel Aviv	Israel
7	New York	United States
8	Singapore	Singapore
9	Tokyo	Japan
10	Beijing	China

Rank	City	Country
1	Ashgabat	Turkmenistan
2	Hong Kong	China
3	Beirut	Lebanon
4	Tokyo	Japan
5	Zürich	Switzerland
6	Shanghai	China
7	Singapore	Singapore
8	Geneva	Switzerland
9	Beijing	China
10	Bern	Switzerland

Rank	City	Country
1	Hong Kong	China
2	Ashgabat	Turkmenistan
3	Tokyo	Japan
4	Zürich	Switzerland
5	Singapore	Singapore
6	New York	United States
7	Shanghai	China
8	Bern	Switzerland
9	Geneva	Switzerland
10	Beijing	China

Rank	City	Country
1	Hong Kong	China
2	Tokyo	Japan
3	Singapore	Singapore
4	Seoul	South Korea
5	Zürich	Switzerland
6	Shanghai	China
7	Ashgabat	Turkmenistan
8	Beijing	China
9	New York	United States
10	Shenzhen	China

Rank	City	Country
1	Hong Kong	China
2	Tokyo	Japan
3	Zürich	Switzerland
4	Singapore	Singapore
5	Seoul	South Korea
6	Luanda	Angola
7	Shanghai	China
8	N’Djamena	Chad
9	Beijing	China
10	Bern	Switzerland

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List of most expensive cities for expatriate employees

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Ranking	City	Country
1	Kinshasa	Democratic Republic of the Congo
2	Zürich	Switzerland
3	Geneva
4	Basel
5	Bern
6	Freetown	Sierra Leone
7	Tokyo	Japan
8	Luanda	Angola
9	Hong Kong	China
10	Shanghai	China

Ranking	City	Country
1	Juba	South Sudan
2	Luanda	Angola
3	Zürich	Switzerland
4	Geneva
5	Bern
6	Basel
7	Kinshasa	Democratic Republic of the Congo
8	Shanghai	China
9	Beijing	China
10	Seoul	South Korea