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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

See above sticky on "cost of living in Dubai" and take it from there. Good luck.

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.

£55,000, roughly AED 375,000 per year, AED 31,000 a month tax free is crap?

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?

Oh yeah, 11050 is crap. That'a about £1,625 per month, £20,000 a year. Talk about a pay cut.

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.