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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WB/IMF couple in early 40s. Neither of us is even in the managerial grades yet and our total income is about 500k (when converted to the gross equivalent, as our pay is net). And we feel quite poor relative to many of the families in our DC’s private school. 200+ individual income really does not seem that extraordinary in this area. [/quote]

I feel like all of these positions are for contract/term, ie expiring after a few years.  How do people get in there with perm offers?[/quote]

Nobody gets in immediately on a permanent contract. My DH got in on a 3-year fixed term which was converted to open-ended after that. I was on a contract for 2 years, then I got a 3-year fixed term, which had better benefits than the contract, and now I am in an open-ended position. 
We are international, but we definitely are not politically connected in any way, as another PP tried to claim. We both have PhDs though from their preferred universities. [/quote]

I know several ladies in my neighborhoods who have no US degrees and are staff at the WB (in support divisions). One is a wife of the country representative, she barely spoke English, had no US degree and was trying to get into RE as an agent for couple years. Then her hubby found a way to insert her as a consultant; then she got converted into WB staff. Now she's making at least 150K. I'm not bitter about foreign nationals with Ivy PhDs but this type of an example is also typical how people get into WB[/quote]

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