U.S. paying even more to lure citizens to Afghan, Iraq jobs

The rates apply to about 80,000 U.S. government civilians working overseas and also tend to be used by private U.S. companies and other organizations as benchmarks for establishing their compensation plans for employees abroad.

State Department officials stressed that the revised allowances were not based on any reassessment of conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan but on taking previous survey data and awarding more compensation to the worst cases.

Base salaries for the more than 300 State Department members working in Iraq range from about $35,000 to $155,000, according to department figures.

With word of the new hardship and danger rates still filtering through government ranks, officials said it was too early to assess the impact on attracting fresh volunteers for Iraq or Afghanistan or persuading those there to extend assignments.
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