Differential Change Analysis (DCA)

Changes in goods and services differentials are rarely well-understood by expatriates. International assignment managers and administrators can spend too much of their time explaining every change to individual assignees.

To help expatriates better understand these changes and reduce the burden on international assignment teams, ORC has developed the Differential Change Analysis (DCA).

The DCA is a unique "pay statement" that provides expatriates with an easy-to-understand explanation of changes to their goods and services differential.

The DCA clearly describes changes to each expatriate's pay, and provides a thorough explanation of the factors behind any fluctuations in the differential.
The exact amount of each factor is shown, along with the impact on the overall differential amount.
The DCA can be combined with a broad range of communication materials to cover every aspect of international assignment compensation, in terms that will be easily understood by both new and experienced expatriates. One resource is ORC’s award-winning Virtual International Compensation Knowledge Instructor (VICKI) website; two of its eight sections are included with the DCA, and you may choose to provide access to the full tutorial as an additoinal option.

ORC's DCA provides expatriates with individualized explanations of how changes in these factors affect their company-provided differential for goods and services:

Exchange rate changes,
Relative price movement of goods and services,
Salary and family size changes, and
Expenditure pattern changes.

To learn more about DCA or ORC's other expatriate communication services, please contact your ORC consultant or local ORC office.

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About DCA

What is DCA?
- ORC’s DCA provides expatriates with individualized explanations of how changes in these factors affect their company-provided differential for goods and services:
  
  Exchange rate changes,
  
  Relative price movement of goods and services,
  
  Salary and family size changes, and
  
  Expenditure pattern changes.
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How Can DCA Help You?
- The DCA educates expatriates and helps eliminate confusion by providing a clear and concise analysis of changes to company-provided goods and services differential; this in turn, reduces the amount of time needed to explain the changes to your globally dispersed team.
Communicating about Pay in Changing Times
- Discussing pay with employees is difficult enough in steady times-but when you need to explain pay programs to expatriates, change your pay policy, or reassess and alter your pay practices in the face of a declining economy, your challenge grows larger. ORC Worldwide is experienced in all of these sensitive issues and our communication practice can help you develop a unique strategy and plan for communicating in these situations.

What Others Are Saying

“Before introducing the DCA, we had ongoing communication issues with our expatriates whenever their differentials were adjusted. It was very time consuming for our HR staff and, of course, very frustrating for the expatriates themselves. Reaction to the DCA service has been very positive. We have gone through two quarterly update cycles using the new service and the amount of questions and complaints from our expatriates about changes in their differentials has dropped considerably. Most of our expatriates now seem to understand how the balance sheet works!”

Brad Cothran
Expatriate Administration Program Senior Manager
Cummins Inc.

Differential Change Analysis (DCA)

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About DCA

What Others Are Saying

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