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desert date · Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 67 Location: Australia

Is it true that salaries can go as high up as USD100,000 for long timers (10 years + in KSA) for someone with a PhD in a related discipline? I ran into one of my old lecturers the other day and he claimed to know someone making this much. If it's true, then it's not too shabby at all ~ equivalent to what top-of-the-scale associate professors make in Australia. Full professors make more, of course.

trapezius · Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 9:34 pm Post subject:

That's just over SR. 30,000/month.

Not hard to imagine a Saudi/Caucasian with a Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering [or other "prestigious" or high-demand area] from a top US/EU university making that much at KFUPM after 15-20 years.

desert date · Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 67 Location: Australia

This guy was teaching EFL/linguistics and he wasn't from a particularly prestigious Oz uni. The high-fliers don't leave except on fellowships at western/Asian universities of similar standing.

When I said "top of the scale," I meant at the top of their salary scale.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Not in EFL/Linguistics.

007 · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:07 am Post subject:

According to the Ministry of Education's salary scales are as follows:

1. Saudi Full Professor with max years of service, with grade 15, the max monthly Salary is around SR21625

2. Non Saudi Full professor with max years of service, the monthly slary not more than SR14500, and I did not meet any Non-Saudi professor who has reached this salary!

I met only one German guy, who was working as a technical expert, his salary was around SR25000, and was partly paid in combination from the Saudi government and his German Company.

I guess the people who make the salary of more than SR30000 a month are the Western Medical Consultant in the Big Government hospitals, especially the military ones.

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

DD - I'd say that your friend... exaggerates... Laughing

VS

Queen of Sheba · Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 397

VS has stated the painfully obvious here. A salary like that in ESL is laughable. Do teachers actually think they deserve the salary of a high level manager or doctor? Saudi isn�t that desperate for English teachers. I know of consultants and VPs at banks and Telecoms making this kind of cash and more. Cleary nobody in our line of work would make that kind of cash. This isn�t exactly Iraq, nor do we get hazard pay.

Bebsi · Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 958

I was making 100k in Saudi no problem...and more. I drove two cars, one a big Volvo SUV for desert trips, and a 7 series BMW. I lived in a huge villa by the sea, with servants & maids galore (the maids wore very skimpy chiffon dresses, I got to decide their uniforms), and a beautiful swimming pool surrounded by palm trees, where I would sip my Club Havana sundowner. My vacations seemed endless, and in my house among other things, I had a Bang & Oluffson stereo with 5:1 surround speakers in every room, a sauna/jacuzzi and a large Plasma TV with over 1,000 channels.

It was truly wonderful.

What made it all come to an end?

The alarm clock, at 6.40 am.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Bebsi the cynical Celto-Romanian has summed it all up. Dreams. Lies. Fantasies.

desert date · Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 67 Location: Australia

Bebsi · Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 958

Well, I have quite a few hundred here in Romania, but the fact that they're in Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Russian, Turkish and Arabic is not really helpful, for rather obvious reasons. Crying or Very sad

Bebsi · Joined: 07 Feb 2005 Posts: 958

Stroians (otherwise known as Australians) do indeed have a tendency to exaggerate. I met billions of them when I was there, and their stories were so tall they were a danger to aviation.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

The fact is that non-saudi teachers of English get from 6,000 Saudi Riyals to maximum 30,000 a month. The highest figure would be from British Aerospace. Not many on that level of payment. Lots earn around 10,000 to 12,000 a month. Of course this is tax-free and accommodation is provided. Some places feed you too.

And remember that if you have a 'non-Western' passport (Indian, Pakistani, South Afrecan) you should expect significantly less. You can also expect to be treated as a 'Rafik' not as a 'Khawaja'.