This isn't really directly true. A global company manager is not allowed to balance salary accounts and is usually given rules where US/Canada/western Europe ar

This isn't really directly true. A global company manager is not allowed to balance salary accounts and is usually given rules where US/Canada/western Europe are the same one head count and other countries are multiples according to typical comparative cost. The end result is that many jobs don't get opened at all in Europe but the ones that do tend closer toward US rates as this is what they were planning to pay but could not find the one high cost head the manager wanted.