I work for a multinational company of 400k+ employees. For the "normal" people this is how it works, for upper management of course it is different. Also from

I work for a multinational company of 400k+ employees. For the "normal" people this is how it works, for upper management of course it is different. Also from friends working for other such companies I have the same input. Please note that here we are talking about temporary move (a few years) and then you have to go back to your originating country. Furthermore in order to compensate for the increased costs as I mentioned they usually pay some of the fixed costs like accommodation BUT your salary remains the same. Back in the old days (eg. 10-15years ago) they could even pay extra money on top of your salary. Also keep in mind that the world is not just the US or India, there are many big companies outside of the US and one last point, this works very well the other ways around. People from a country with higher salary to go work for a few years on a country with lower salary so they make money + get extra promotion points for having worked outside of their main country