{"id":10590,"date":"2019-05-30T12:10:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T19:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/?p=10590"},"modified":"2025-01-06T07:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T15:14:10","slug":"how-job-relocation-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/how-job-relocation-works\/","title":{"rendered":"How Job Relocation Works Today: 7 Things You Should Negotiate For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homelight.com\/blog\/relocating-for-a-job\/\">Relocating for a job<\/a> is never a walk in the park, but when you\u2019re also trying to sell your house, the process can become overwhelming\u2014and fast.<\/p>\n<p>Movers are expensive. Selling your home is difficult. Settling kids into a new school, making sure your spouse is on board, figuring out which neighborhoods you want to live in \u2026 no wonder your head is spinning.<\/p>\n<p>Yet this is the situation many people find themselves in. Out of the average of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movebuddha.com\/blog\/moving-industry-statistics\/\">28 million people who move<\/a> in the U.S. annually, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplyss.com\/blog\/moving-statistics\/\">10% of those<\/a>\u20143,500,000\u2014moved to start a new job or because they were transferred.<\/p>\n<p>Because relocation packages that help buffer the upfront expenses aren&#8217;t necessarily what they were a few decades ago, we dug into the research around how job relocation works today and what you should plan to negotiate in the discussions with your employer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the days of extra-cushy corporate relocation package are, for the most part, gone, many companies still offer at least some sort of relocation assistance. 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