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Montanaland · Joined: 20 Dec 2009 Posts: 60 Location: Bakken Oil Field

Hi All,

Can I please get a salary Guesstimate for what a teacher in the gulf makes? Also, I'm asking about the hypothetical career teacher with an MA in Tesol and 5-10ys experience.

Thank you so much.

tannhauser · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 43 Location: Middle East

It depends. Different school different salaries. In some places it varies also on how long you are going to stay. Short term deals do not pay well - it is better therefore to sign for a year.

Most recently Jubail Industrial College in the Eastern Province is paying 12,500 SAR a month. On that gig you get two or three months paid holiday over the summer. I think you can apply for a housing grant too which capped at 50,000 SAR a year. The calculation is 3x your basic salary. KFUPM and PMU have similar starting rates but everyone is on different salaries because of experience, qualifications, time in the GCC etc. These universities and government run colleges also hand out an annual pay rise. So the longer you stay the more money you earn. A friend at JIC is on something like 18,000 a month and he gets a four bedroom villa with garden paid for. Then again, he's been there for more than a decade.

You can go cap in hand to places like IH who will make you work split shifts for not very much. Direct English I think is in this league also. The pay here is probably around the 7000 to 8500 SAR mark.

Dammam Community College, I have heard is good. I think people start on 10500 or 11500 SAR. Again there are incremental benefits that are linked to time served.

Military gigs pay well but usually they are after people who have done their time in the middle east and know a bit about KSA. Starting salaries are around 16,000 SAR and get higher when you go with BAE.

Sheikh N Bake · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: Dis ting of ours

Damman CC starts at 10.5 to 11K a month? That's $2900 a month. That's what I made at IPA-Jeddah, basically another two-year college, in 1994. Raytheon paid $42K then. In 2010, that is...not good! Not for someone with an MA and 5-10 years' experience.

At the HCT in the Emirates you can start around 15-18,000 dirhams monthly = $50-57,000 annually

tannhauser · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 43 Location: Middle East

That's a guess Sheikh. I met a teacher there who had just started and that is what he was on. He didn't have an MA though.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

I get 16,000 SR a month. Overtime sometimes ibcreases that but is not guaranteed. Long holidays. I pay for Health insurance out of my salary and that brings it down to 15,300 SR monthly. No other bills except telephone. I have to pay for my food. And support a tribe of ex-wives, children and grandchildren. And I have expensive habits.

Any donations for a hard-up oldtimer welcome.

trapezius · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 12:26 pm Post subject:

^ So your health insurance costs SR. 8,400 per year?

Health insurance here costs from SR. 1,200 to SR. 2,000 per year, not 8,000+.

007 · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 1:29 pm Post subject:

It seems Uncle Scott is using the VIP (5*) International insurance (like AXA PPP International or Bupa), for a premium of SR8400 per year, his tribe of ex-wives, children and grandchildren will get at least SR1 million againts his death! Laughing

I think it is a good deal for his tribe! Laughing

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Health Insurance not Life Insurance. It costs me around 700 Sr a month. I spend more than that in consultations and medications !

Why has no one offered to help out an oldtimer by sparing him a dime ?

007 · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 2:03 pm Post subject:

redsnapper · Joined: 01 Jul 2010 Posts: 60

I get 16,000 a month
3,000 for housing
1000 for transportation
and another 1000 for resettlement/ this all equals 64,000 USD/
Also the school said they could help met placed in the Fal Compound.

Sheikh N Bake · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: Dis ting of ours

Military contracts are good. The one I managed to get 15 months ago thanks to a friend with wasta--and I suppose my veteran experience in the Gulf--has a 27-hour (maximum) work week, annual cash of $74,000, new car to myself with free fuel; free housing; every fourth Wed. off, and starting next year we're supposed to start getting 40 days for Ramadan in addition to Hajj and our annual leave of 30 days. (Currently just 14 days for Ramadan.) Oh--and I musn't forget, free first class medical coverage including full US coverage when in the States!

No, it's not BAE and I wouldn't go near that place.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Sheikh, you will incur the wrath of the Flight Sergeants and Wing Commanders who haunt these pages !

Sheikh N Bake · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: Dis ting of ours

I will bear that in mind, SAH! Thank you, SAH!