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Dear all,Need advice re Offer of employment

I just joined the forum and really need an advice.
I got a job offer + Remuneration.
AED, 45,000/month -all inclusive (salary, food , accommodation ) + company vehicle + tickets
Project managing building sites/high rise. I am a civil eng-22 yrs exp- family of 3 incl wife. work location is Sharja.
my salary here in new zealnd is the same b4 tax.


cheers

Good.

I don’t know how good the source is but I just heard that the average salary for a Canadian/USA passport holder in Dubai is 37,500 and for a British passport holder is 13,600 all in so if that is any indication you are above both of those. Sharjah is also cheaper to live and supposedly has better schools but I know little of that Emirate.

Good luck and welcome to the UAE.

Are you sure about these figures

AED 37500 & AED 13600

Freonboy wrote:Are you sure about these figures

AED 37500 & AED 13600

I was wondering where they came from. However average can sometimes be very misleading.

Yes it's a good offer, you can live well on that money.

On the averages, my experience so far of Dubai is that the North Americans here often are single or without children, so a higher average would make sense. There are also less of them compared to Brits. A lot more Brits come here with family, so I can imagine there's a huge amount of spouses who are either not working or only working part time as they don't need the cash. If you simply take earnings and divide by passport numbers (as that's about as technical as statistics get over here) you'd end up with a lowish number.

HAHHAAHAHA first off scott, love the avatar.

Secondly, I can't let you know my source but it was a study that was an "officialish" study that was done with government involvement, it did not include non-working spouses or children, having said that I agree with all of you that averages are misleading.

I believe the disparity between the two simply lies in the fact that many English people are here, many that are willing to take lower salaries because they like the lifestyle or something similar and simply it is a smaller move for them.

I have an English friend that has 3 kids that were born here, he’s lived here for 30 years, one of his kids salaries is 3500AED so that obviously factors in and pulls the average down, there are i'm sure many examples of this.

I also think that Americans/Canadians that come here, for us it is a big move, 21 hour flight and 11 time zones for me and for most of us North Americans Dubai is a very foreign place, no word of a lie I even know some people that get danger pay (added supplement) for living here, as such you get less people moving here for the ‘adventure’ we come for the faloos.

thanks for the PROFESSIONAL feedback from all, i feel like home when i enter this forum? ....and warm feeling as well!
Fayz, thanks for your analysis and FLOOS point...(^__^)

just last q? i can speak arabic /fluent as my mother is kuwaiti..so is this make a difference to lifestyle/bargins there.....

cheers