In addition to housing and school allowances, business-class air travel and free trips home used to be a given at financial institutions.
You'll be paid in dollars and will make a comparable salary to what you'd make in the same position in the U.S. The boost comes when you factor in things like covered moving costs, school allowances and a driver.
Hertlein said a typical school fees allowance per child is around $20,000 per year.
So you get a cash advance on your Christmas present and make up the remainder with what you've saved from your school-dinner allowance.
He once ran through the prerequisites - school fees, allowances, cars, drivers and other moneysworths he thought a certain kind of briefcase soldier really cared about.
The teachers say that the school makes allowances for other people's cultural heritage, but the little girl's hair is too urban so she can't wear them in cornrows.
In more recent times, France has put in place a generous system of crèche places, all-day nursery schools, family allowances and income-tax deductions for big families.
In families and schools, moreover, allowances are often made for those less capable in some domains, like sports or music, in order to compensate for their disadvantages there by enabling them to flourish in others.
But there is ample room for negotiation on a total compensation package: a housing allowance, school fees, flights home.
In New York, where elite schools often create their campuses with a series of buildings in a neighborhood, more schools offer an allowance than housing: just 6 of the 70 New York City schools in the survey, or 8.6 percent, reported offering on-campus housing, while 22 schools, or 31.4 percent, reported offering a subsidy.
After making her way through graduate school with some allowances made for her poor reading skills, Dr. Bartlett decided to go to law school.
