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Shakhbut
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Highest: UAE Prep Program take home $8,000 (30,000 AED) a month and 60,000 AED went for rent, so 300,000 AED a year or about $80,000 take home a year, no taxes. One round trip flight and insurance, including 2000 AED in dental.
Lowest: USA Language school take home $15,000 a year which was taxed, no housing, but had health insurance coverage. |
Many went one better than that, Gulezar. Basic + max housing + max education could exceed 500,000 AED a year, a cool 136,000 USD tax free. Incredible but true. |
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Gulezar
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Highest: UAE Prep Program take home $8,000 (30,000 AED) a month and 60,000 AED went for rent, so 300,000 AED a year or about $80,000 take home a year, no taxes. One round trip flight and insurance, including 2000 AED in dental.
Lowest: USA Language school take home $15,000 a year which was taxed, no housing, but had health insurance coverage. |
Many went one better than that, Gulezar. Basic + max housing + max education could exceed 500,000 AED a year, a cool 136,000 USD tax free. Incredible but true. |
There's no doubt that many folks were making much better than that. I knew folks who were walking with better than 20,000 AED a month in salary. The kicker was if a contract would give you a house, pay your rent or give you a housing allowance. Getting a housing allowance meant that one could pocket some of the housing allowance by going a step down on rent.
If you had kids, then the educational allowance is a wash. Even though your fees might be covered, and many people found that the educational allowance was not sufficient, you still had to feed and clothe the family and often pay for day care.
Anyway, I was just stating my experience, rather than what I had heard from others. In any case, those salaries are not up for grabs now. |
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scot47
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The big savers in my time in Saudi were the DINKs (Dual Income No Kids). I did not save much because I had a family to support. So it goes.
I could practise some "Sour Grapes" and say I never wanted to have money stashed away in the bank |
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In the heat of the moment
Joined: 22 May 2015
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Location: Italy
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It's all relative, Scot. I was a SINK in China on 5,000rmb/month, which at the time was three hundred and fifty quid! I'd left a job (well, accepted redundancy) in the UK where my tax bill was nearly twice that. My Chinese DoS asked me why I chuckled after she apologetically handed me my payslip, saying I had been taxed 5%.
A low offer I had in central London was 20k/year, which is pitiful. I was reading a thread on TES about salaries in Madrid, apparently they're only possible to live on if you live with your other half and they earn a lot. I expect this is the same in many cities with a high quality of life. |
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