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MrScaramanga
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VS seems the be under the impression that only luxury items (such as hotel rooms or dining) have gone up. Not so! Look at the price of gas... Filling up used to cost me AED50 in 2002. Now I pay 110. The price of food items as basic as milk have also gone up. So, even if you are living "simply", this life is much more expensive than it used to be when VS was still hanging out here 
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Sheikh Inal Ovar
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Well this is a turn up for the books!
The pay rise that HCT'ers are moaning about isn't the biggest pay rise in town ... |
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bje
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| Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 12:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Well this is a turn up for the books! The pay rise that HCT'ers are moaning about isn't the biggest pay rise in town ... |
Yep, can see why they're complaining. Our institute now gives well over 4% annually, or I'd be gone. How about where you are, Sheikh? |
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veiledsentiments
Joined: 20 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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| MrScaramanga wrote: |
| VS seems the be under the impression that only luxury items (such as hotel rooms or dining) have gone up. Not so! Look at the price of gas... |
Nope, never said that... Prices are up everywhere for everything... here in the US as everywhere else. My petrol prices have more than doubled since 2002 too. As I suggested above... basic living expenses could be up 300% (ie petrol and Spinneys) and the raises of the last 5 years easily cover it. Luxuries are obviously the only place that we can make cuts in our expenses.
But... everyone sets their own priorities and if prices are up and salaries are not keeping up with your preferred lifestyle, then you have two choices... leave... or spend less money on the luxuries. It's Budgeting 101.
Until they lose enough good teachers who tell them that salaries are the reason - and are unable to hire any new teachers who also tell them that the salaries are too low, nothing will happen to change it.
VS
(all US/UK/Aust based ESL teachers reading this... who are living with the same or worse inflation... and wage/benefit cuts... are probably doing this:  They may be having trouble coming up with much sympathy over the costs of 5* hotels and maids...) |
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mishmumkin
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| Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Filling up used to cost me AED50 in 2002. Now I pay 110. |
Well, this is happening everywhere. In Seattle we're paying $3.29/gallon...and my employer gave a 5 1/2 % increase. Housing is out of control here, as well. I think what most people are describing in Dubai happens in cities all over the world. I guess it comes down to is: What's worse? Shaving off expenses that are not necessary or taking that MA TESOL back to places like Seattle...where it will render you useless, forcing you to choose a change of career.
Is anyone finding life in Dubai so expensive that they can't save money while getting the bills paid? Has anyone considered moving to another emirate? Less places to spend your money in Fujeirah... |
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al bidarnd
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| Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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| veiledsentiments wrote: |
| As I suggested above... basic living expenses could be up 300% (ie petrol and Spinneys) and the raises of the last 5 years easily cover it. |
Not sure about anyone else but I haven't had a 60% + a year pay raise over the past 5 years.
As I said above and others agreed with me the beef here is about increments going down. Sure inflation is going up - at a rate way more than the US - not that the US should come into this as we're talking about the UAE. The increment is the issue - not our spending and budgeting. |
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MrScaramanga
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We are not talking about Dubai only. Abu Dhabi has been catching up to the frenzy real fast (rents in particular)... The price of gas is the same throughout the UAE and so are the prices of food items. So moving to another emirate is not going to make any difference. I don't think anyone is saying that life here has become unbearable. All we are talking about is that standard of living has gone down. This forum is about the UAE, and the postings are just providing information about what it's like to live here now. 
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Gnocchiman
Joined: 23 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 4:18 am Post subject: |
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| How does a thread titled "Salary increase at UAEU" become a forum for a bunch of HCTers? If you want to complain about your miserable jobs and miserable pay and the rising cost of living, then go somewhere else, please. Those of us who are getting a 25% pay increase at UAEU couldn't care less about your sorry HCT lives. Now, I've got to go shake that Martini... |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 4:25 am Post subject: |
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Gloating isn't nice GM... 
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Sheikh Inal Ovar
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| Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2007 5:57 am Post subject: |
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| Well this is a turn up for the books! The pay rise that HCT'ers are moaning about isn't the biggest pay rise in town ... |
Yep, can see why they're complaining. Our institute now gives well over 4% annually, or I'd be gone. How about where you are, Sheikh? |
Well .. let's just say that with the difference between the money I have been paid over the years and the money I could have been paid had I received the same % annual increments as HCTers, I could have bought a small flat somewhere in southern Italy ...
So no .. I'm not sorry for them at all ...
Much in the same way that people who don't work in the Gulf aren't in the slightest bit sorry about my flat in Italy .. |
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sandy gallop
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Gnocchiman
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 7:47 am Post subject: |
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| Whatever...we're getting a pay rise. I really don't care who else gets it. |
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sarakershaw
Joined: 22 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:53 am Post subject: |
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| the new ceiling (please correct me if I'm wrong) is a little "north" of AED18000. |
Who with what credentials would get/is getting this amount of money in the UAE? |
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mishmumkin
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Who with what credentials would get/is getting this amount of money in the UAE? |
Seemingly the people who've been there a number of years. I've never met anyone hired in at this rate. Ceiling being the max they'll ever make, I presume. |
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Miyazaki
Joined: 12 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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What are:
UAEU ?
UGRU?
Thank you. |
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