Northernlad
Hi, great discussion forum, loads of great information, I've received a job offer, good company big in Dubai. My salary here in the UK is reasonably good (55000 sterling). I'm not bothered about a bit of a pay cut (want to have a bit of an adventure), but need to know whether me and the family could live of the following:
Accomodation (including all gas/electiricity/water and phone costs)
Travel Allowance 1045 dh a month
Phone Allowance 20 dh a month
Full medical provision for all of family (Researched this and it does cover everything)
30000 furnishing allowance (one off payment)
11050 Basic Salary a month
All schooling paid for (for up to 3 kids)
Talk is of the villa accomodation being in Silicon Oasis (not to bothered if its a building site as long as by 2007 it's all been landscaped!!) I just need to know that this is a good package as trying to work it out here in the UK (with the pound rifding high against the dollar) is driving me crazy!!
Could anybody give me a view on whether this is good/bad/OK
Concord
See above sticky on "cost of living in Dubai" and take it from there. Good luck.
XRW-147
Accomodation - ok. Just make sure u don't foot the dewa levies.
Travel allowance - is this a transport allowance, as in for your car? If so, you will need to at least double it to get a decent family sized car - since you have a family of 5.
Phone allowance - does this cover mobile usage only? If so, then if this figure was stirling it would be ok. For dhs, its crud.
Medical - ok.
Furnishing - depends what you are bringing with you and size of accomodation. Should be enough to cover white goods and some neccesities.
Salary - no idea what profession you are in but my personal opinion is its crap for a supporting a family of 5 coming from a western country. Double it, and it'll be fine.
Schooling - check the allowance limit, as well as availability of schools.
onetickin
£55,000, roughly AED 375,000 per year, AED 31,000 a month tax free is crap?
XRW-147
- onetickin wrote:
£55,000, roughly AED 375,000 per year, AED 31,000 a month tax free is crap?
Are you blind?
55k stirling is what he gets
now in the UK .
He is being offered this
11050 Basic Salary a month here.
Would you like a math lesson with that?
onetickin
Oh yeah, 11050 is crap. That'a about £1,625 per month, £20,000 a year. Talk about a pay cut.
XRW-147
- onetickin wrote:
Oh yeah, 11050 is crap. That'a about £1,625 per month, £20,000 a year. Talk about a pay cut.
*nods*
Now when you factor it is to support a family of 5, crap would indeed be an understatement.