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Re: What is being bilingual worth?

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Re: What is being bilingual worth?

Postby Taro Toporific » Wed Dec 18, 2002 12:07 am

bikkle wrote:What is being bilingual worth?

Being bilingual not only gets you the job, it also has a major role to play in your compensation. I would say as a rule of thumb that bilingual capability adds about 30% onto your monthly salary and sometimes as much as 100% (for certain highly technical positions).


Well.... the author of "What is being bilingual worth?", Terrie Lloyd, sold his start-up companies in Japan for millions of dollars and he ain't exactly bilingual. :P
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Sad counter-example -- Re: What is being bilingual worth?

Postby Taro Toporific » Wed Dec 18, 2002 11:24 am

bikkle wrote:What is being bilingual worth?

Being bilingual not only gets you the job...


I say, "ONE BILLION DOLLARS!"

Sad counter-example: Last week I had to turn down a Managing Director job for the Japanese branch of a US chip fab company because my Japanese reading and formal language (keigo) mega-sucks. :(
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