I am starting to believe, despite not personally knowing many, there must be a good bit of Argentine executives and business people earning salaries that might make many ex-pats bat an eyelash, drool even, and that are just as competitve with US and European standards, based on some of the tactics and requirements I have seen put into place in the last few months, not to mention the one that affects many ex pats, and that is the requirement of the visa rentista being raised to 8000 pesos of CLEAR income per month (which, in my opinion, is still enough to live VERY well if you dont have to pay ¨extranjero¨ rent prices and dont live in the tourist trap bubble of places) It is equivalent to a native working earning a total salary of about 10-11k (before taxes).
A friend of mine, a young psychologist here earning what many would consider a darn good ¨entry level professional salary¨ of 6000 pesos (just out of college a few months ago) was recently lured at the Alto Palermo movie theater's American Express kiosk to apply for the standard Green card which every Tom, Dick, and Harry I know in the States can have (if you have good credit). and was blatantly turned down for not meeting their minimum income requirement of 12.000 pesos per month. Keep in mind this is Argentina we are talking about and it was for the basic, bare-bones Classic Green Card. Out of curiosity, we inquired and found that the income requirement for Gold is at 20.000 and Platinum 30.000+
That is a hell of a lot of monthly income for Argentina. I know a lot of professionals in pretty darn good jobs that do not make near this. A project manager at Telefonica with 10 years tenure is earning around 10k, a risk manager at a potent Argentine bank company earning just shy of 11k, etc. Not to mention that a lot of the Argentines I know who are REALLY making big bucks seem to be ¨en negro¨ and would have no way of justfying their high roller incomes.
As someone who is job hunting and has a pretty darn good CV, where are these positions paying this range of salaries??? There must be a good bit if a potent company such as AMEX can actively offer their product in this market and are promoting themselves heavily (IE: kiosks at theaters, ads in magazines, etc)
I want a piece of that pie!! LOL
A friend of mine, a young psychologist here earning what many would consider a darn good ¨entry level professional salary¨ of 6000 pesos (just out of college a few months ago) was recently lured at the Alto Palermo movie theater's American Express kiosk to apply for the standard Green card which every Tom, Dick, and Harry I know in the States can have (if you have good credit). and was blatantly turned down for not meeting their minimum income requirement of 12.000 pesos per month. Keep in mind this is Argentina we are talking about and it was for the basic, bare-bones Classic Green Card. Out of curiosity, we inquired and found that the income requirement for Gold is at 20.000 and Platinum 30.000+
That is a hell of a lot of monthly income for Argentina. I know a lot of professionals in pretty darn good jobs that do not make near this. A project manager at Telefonica with 10 years tenure is earning around 10k, a risk manager at a potent Argentine bank company earning just shy of 11k, etc. Not to mention that a lot of the Argentines I know who are REALLY making big bucks seem to be ¨en negro¨ and would have no way of justfying their high roller incomes.
As someone who is job hunting and has a pretty darn good CV, where are these positions paying this range of salaries??? There must be a good bit if a potent company such as AMEX can actively offer their product in this market and are promoting themselves heavily (IE: kiosks at theaters, ads in magazines, etc)
I want a piece of that pie!! LOL
