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Quarterly Report
Hardship Differentials, April 2000

Introduction | Living Costs Abroad | Quarters Allowances | Technical Notes


Table 3

Country and City1

Differential
Rate Percent
2

Afghanistan: Kabul

25

Albania: Tirana

20

Algeria: Algiers

25

Angola: Luanda

25

Armenia: Yerevan

25

Azerbaijan: Baku

25

Bahrain

5

Bangladesh: Dhaka

25

Belarus: Minsk

20

Belize: Belize City

15

Benin: Cotonou

20

Bolivia: La Paz

15

Bosnia-Herzegovina: Sarajevo

25

Botswana: Selebi Phikwe

10

Brazil: Recife

5

Brunei: Bandar Seri Begawan

15

Bulgaria: Sofia

15

Burkina: Ouagadougou

20

Burma: Rangoon

20

Burundi: Bujumbura

25

Cambodia: Phnom Penh

25

Cameroon: Dschang

15

                   Yaounde

20

Cape Verde: Praia

20

Central African Rep.: Bangui

25

Chad: N'Djamena

25

China: Beijing

15

           Chengdu

25

           Guangzhou

20

           Shanghai

15

           Shenyang

25

Colombia: Barranquilla

10

                   Bogota

5

Congo: Brazzaville

25

Congo, Dem. Rep. of: Kinshasa

25

Cote d'Ivoire: Abidjan

15

Croatia: Zagreb

5

              Vukovar

10

Cuba: Havana

20

Djibouti: Djibouti City

20

Dominican Rep.: Santo Domingo

15

East Timor

25

Ecuador: Guayaquil

10

                 Quito

15

Egypt: Alexandria

15

             Cairo

15

El Salvador: San Salvador

10

Eritrea: Asmara

20

Estonia : Tallinn

10

Ethiopia: Addis Ababa

20

Fiji: Suva

10

Gabon: Libreville

15

Gambia: Banjul

20

Georgia: Tbilisi

25

Ghana: Accra

25

Greece: Athens

5

Grenada

10

Guatemala: Guatemala City

10

Guinea: Conakry

25

Guinea-Bissau: Bissau

25

Guyana: Georgetown

20

Haiti: Port-au-Prince

25

Honduras: Tegucigalpa

15

India: Calcutta

20

           Chennai (Madras)

15

           Mumbai (Bombay)

15

           New Delhi

15

Indonesia: Jakarta

10

                   Medan

15

                  Surabaya

15

Iraq: Baghdad

20

Jamaica: Kingston

10

Jerusalem

5

Jordan: Amman

5

Kazakhstan: Almaty

25

Kenya: Nairobi

25

Korea: Chunchon

5

           Kunsan

5

           Osan

5

          Tongduchon

5

          Uijongbu

5

Korea, Dem. People's Rep. of: Pyongyang

25

Kuwait: Kuwait City

15

Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek

25

Laos: Vientiane

25

Latvia: Riga

10

Lebanon: Beirut

25

Lesotho: Maseru

15

Liberia: Monrovia

25

Lithuania: Vilnius

5

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:  Skopje

15

Madagascar: Antananarivo

20

Malawi: Lilongwe

15

Mali: Bamako

25

Marshall Islands: Majuro

15

Mauritania: Nouakchott

25

Mauritius

5

Mexico: Merida

5

               Mexico, D.F.

10

              Monterrey

5

Micronesia, Fed. States: Pohnpei

15

Moldova: Chisinau

20

Mongolia: Ulaanbaatar

25

Mozambique: Maputo

20

Nepal: Kathmandu

20

Nicaragua: Managua

10

Niger: Niamey

25

Nigeria: Abuja

25

              Kaduna

25

               Lagos

25

Oman: Muscat

5

Pakistan: Islamabad

20

                 Karachi

20

                Lahore

25

                Peshawar

25

Paraguay: Asuncion

5

Peru: Lima

20

Philippines: Cebu

15

                     Manila

15

Poland: Krakow

10

              Warsaw

10

Qatar: Doha

15

Romania: Bucharest

20

Russia: Khabarovsk

20

              Moscow

15

             Saint Petersburg

15

            Vladivostok

25

            Yekaterinberg

25

Rwanda: Kigali

25

Samoa

10

Saudi Arabia: Dhahran Area

20

                       Jeddah

20

                      Riyadh

20

Senegal: Dakar

15

Serbia-Montenegro: Belgrade

10

            Kosovo Province

25

            Pristina

25

Sierra Leone: Freetown

25

Solomon Islands

15

Somalia: Mogadishu

20

Sri Lanka: Colombo

15

Sudan: Khartoum

25

Suriname: Paramaribo

15

Syria: Damascus

15

Tajikistan: Dushanbe

25

Tanzania: Dar es Salaam

25

Thailand: Bangkok

10

                  Chiang Mai

10

                 Songkhla

15

                 Udorn

15

Togo: Lome

25

Trinidad and Tobago: Port of Spain

5

Tunisia: Tunis.

5

Turkey: Adana-Incirlik

5

              Ankara

5

              Istanbul

10

             Izmir-Cigli

5

Turkmenistan: Ashgabat

20

Uganda: Kampala

20

Ukraine: Kiev

25

Uzbekistan: Tashkent

25

Venezuela: Caracas

5

Vietnam: Hanoi

25

Ho Chi Minh City

20

Yemen: Sanaa

25

Zambia: Lusaka

15

1 Changes since the January 2000 publication are highlighted.

2 In addition to the differential rate shown, employees in Albania; Algeria; Bosnia-Herzegovina (except Sarajevo); Burundi; Iraq; Lebanon; Liberia; Kosovo Province (except Pristina), Serbia-Montenegro; Sierra Leone; and Somalia receive a 25 percent "danger pay" allowance. Pristina and Montenegro Province (incl. Podgorica), Serbia-Montenegro, receive a 20 percent "danger pay" allowance. Employees in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina; Colombia; Sindh Province (including Karachi), Pakistan; Peru-Departamentos of San Martin (ex. The City of Tarapoto), Huanuco (entire Departamento), Apurimac (Province of Chincheros only), Ucayali (Province of Padre Abad only), Ayacucho (Provinces of La Mar and Huanta only), Junin (Provinces of Satipo and Chanchamayo only), and Pasco (Province of Oxapampa only); Chechnya Province, Russia; Belgrade, Serbia-Montenegro; Sudan; Tajikistan; and Uganda receive a 15 percent "danger pay" allowance.

Note: The cities listed in the table are selected important posts, including all capital cities, where hardship differentials are paid. A complete listing of locations with hardship differential for Federal civilian employees can be found in Section 920 of the Department of State Standardized Regulations (Government Civilians, Foreign Areas), available from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402.

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