From Paradise To Hell In 48 Hours

[think_too_mut]

1000 per day? so that is 100 for your work and 900 for hardship and risk premium?

 

With accommodation, it works nearly 300K a year. That is about what contractors were getting in Iraq (while being scorned as greedy bastards).

However bad, PNG the place has never been at war and as dangerous as Baghdad.

[bust]

Mainly Gas & Oil, Mining, Construction. The big $$$$ are working Gov contracts.

The private sector has a lot of management expat positions from accountings to hotel management.

How the rate is broken down I have no idea. In my contract all airfares, meals, accomodation, vehicle, driver, security escorts were on top of my salary. So what you don't drink you save

[gobbledonk]

Worked with a guy in the 90s/early noughties who had done a few years up there - he claimed that it was relatively safe inside the compound but clearly your carpark fatality puts that to rest. The country itself is a basketcase, best illustrated over the last month by the farcical situation with 'two Prime Ministers' - how many of us live in countries where that could happen ?

 

Back in my brief Army career, we had quite a few from PNG out here training to be helicopter pilots. Rightly or wrongly, they were given a very poor reputation after one of the helicopters crashed during a training flight and it was put down to pilot error : shook everyone up. I think most of their elite are educated overseas, but the general standard of education would make Thailand look like Switzerland by comparison.