Salary ranges in Qatar

Dalila, it all depends on where these jobs are and the type of contract you have. Oil and gas companies pay higher than average and they dont usually distinguish between nationalities. However, the private sector does depend on nationality.

To give you some idea of the possible range for an engineer let me cite an example.

Civil engineer indian national working in private sector on a permenant type contract.... expect a salary not exceeding 6000-10000 QAR all inclusive.

Civil engineer european national working on oil and gas project, fixed term contract (3-4 years)..... expect $500-$700 per day.

So you can see there are alot of factors which contribute. Could you give more details then maybe myself or others could probably give a more accurate figure.

eg... type of organisation, type of contract, your nationality, years of experience, any middle east experience etc etc.

sorry if i confused u even more.
Respect

GIASI

My husband works here in Qatar and I am thinking about living here full time. Currently I just come for extended visits. I am a teacher and would like to know if there are many teaching jobs here. Also does anyone know what the salaries are like for tachers.

Dalila, this is what i think,

** You will be offered a base salary equal or equivalent to what you might have earned in your own country of origin **

The difference is supposed to be a tax advantage if you can sort out your fiscal status with your own country. All of the above comments are true, when it comes to different continents, nationalities and salaries.

The bottom line is: your 'Gross Income' will be about the same as in your country of origin.

If you are presently employed, and you will be paying taxes to your country of origin if you moved, then there is no point in moving to Doha.

If you are unemployed and looking for a job and this is a good kick- start for you, then you have a point in coming to Doha.

People have reasons other than money for moving to Doha. Younger people would look for an advancement in their careers, for a different challenge, etc. Baby-boomers, will look for end an of career adventure, the mega nature of projects, a place in the sun, a last hurra...?

Moudir

Mish
Thank you for that information....Barburro

Ujang,
It depends who you are working with. Qatar may be a small country but they don't have uniform (state) salary scales covering all industries and disciplines.
As has been indicated on other threads on the site, the cash salary is only a portion of the deal.
You must also consider such as medical care, housing, amount of annual leave, provision of social facilities and other benefits.
You must consider the package as a whole.

Hi Dweller, If I got a IT job offer from government related company (senior position) in Doha how much should I expect for basic pay, housing allowance, transportation allowance, education benefits for the kids etc.

Ujang,
When you say Senior Position, there are at least 9 levels of "Senior Position" in such as QP. Housing Allowances in QP are established by reference to the job grade but will vary by company (outside QP). With rents increasing as they are doing, allowances really need to be reviewed on a regular basis. Transportation really needs to be enough for you to make the repayments on a car loan. Education allowance will probably depend on your nationality and the fees of your particular nationality school. Certainly in QP they will not pay for you to send your children to a European school if you are (say) Indian but will cover the bulk of the fees for your children attending an Indian school.
Most of the schools in Qatar have web sites and will probably indicate school fees. Sorry I am unable to be more specific.

Ujang,
I don'think that there is a Singaporean school in Qatar but am not sure. On the other issues I leave it to someone else to respond. Having spent 17 years (in total) in Qatar, I am no longer "in residence". I left in 2004 since when rents have increased dramatically. My daughter left last year after 23 years (having been raised there) and has confirmed that prices of everything are on the increase.
Regarding the school, you can only try. Within QP each case was considered on it's own merits. I know that if no school of the employees nationality was available, employees were able to send their children to any school of their choice.

Dewller

QP is offering 14000 as base salary for Grade 15 and since I am married they add allowance of 16000. Allowenec include, housing, location, transport. Does it make sense?

can you compare with other local QP salaries?

Anayeb

Moomim
I guess the total is 30000 ( base14000+ allowance16000) = 30000
The definition of allowance they are giving is western primium, Accomodation, location and transport.

I do not know if the transport means annual return ticket to canada or it is something else.

Please help

I'm gobsmacked!
If that is the deal then things have definitely improved. When I left the housing allowance was QR 6,500 a month. The Western allowance maybe the Western Inducement Allowance (one of my legacies) has increased substantially if the total allowances are QR16,000. I assume that you will be working outside of Doha to receive the location allowance.
One downside of the large allowance is that your end of service benefit (ESB) will be based on the basic salary.
Alternatively the deal may include your ESB if you are on what they call a special contract.

Thanks everyone for the comments. If it's any help Moudir I get 16K per month for the year plus transport/villa/health etc so it includes almost 4 months paid holidays (one of the main reasons we are relocating).
I know that QU stipulate a PhD for their English Dept but I do have a former student who taught ESOL with an MA sometime ago and said she enjoyed it. If I can find her I'll ask her where if you like
L

Hi Moudir,
Yes I do. And I taught at a major UK Uni for 7 years. They seemed keen on publications too as I had to send them a list of books, articles etc. However that's all to work on faculty perhaps they have an EFL school where your wife's MAs and experience would be great. Don't know, I don't start till the summer.
I've sent an e-mail to my former student - I supervised her MA a good few years ago, so don't know if she's still on the same address. I'll let you know if I hear back,
L

I get a phone from QP for intervieu; I don't now no thing about the process and about salary in QP for engineer in health and safty could some one help me by the maximum information according to QP recuirment
thank you

Thanx Mish for the clarifications.

It seemed to me that 16K was not a lot of money for any Ph.D, but i didn't want to hurt Lachalla's feelings. Cuz in my book, if you're not doubling (x2) your home net income, there is no point in relocating? unless of course it's a second income (in the family) and you can compromise a bit on the allowances. I think my wife would like to aim at teaching older kids, pre-university, first year U or last year junior college (if there is such a thing over there), cuz that's where her experience has been in the last decade; teaching older kids how to write correctly.. teaching me was the hardest part of course, to bring up my English from the fourth language level, to the second language level.

Hi Lachalla, you seem to have a good plan, with summers spent in Europe? i would definitely go for it! although i don't know what you mean by accountancy thingy? :) Others on this site might tell you if it is possible to operate as an independent consultant or accountant, or you also need to have a sponsore to be in private business in Qatar. In the meantime, i invite you to read my Blog (My first encounter...) as a teacher grading an essay in creative writing (2nd language level of course). Everything i was told is true, all my replies were my thoughts at that moment combined with the fruits of my imagination. I'm aiming for a B+, but will i get it...

Moudir

Hi Lachalla
I understand that you just received an offer fro QU. I just had an interview with them about 4 weeks ago. I have not received any offer. How long did it take for you to receive the offer after the interview?
I am a tenured associate professorin engineering at a top tier Canadian University. I got my PhD in 1994 and have about 60 journal publications. What salary range should I expect?

Thank you.

Hi Akal
I got the offer a week after my interview - I got my PhD in 1992, have a tenured job, and have a fairly long list of pubs (including two books) but I am going to be teaching Linguistics so I don't know about Engineering.
In the UK Engineering would generally attract a higher salary than Humanities. I've been offered 16k per month plus villa, travel allowance, insurance etc etc. The deal seems fine compared to here as teaching is less and holidays longer (and I can acquire some article work on the basis of being in the ME).
Good luck, hope this helps
Lachalla

To put Lachalla and Akal's mind at rest.

We are not doubling our income from Aus and we are still better off here than Aus as we don't pay taxes. We can have a great standard of living (that we couldn't have in Aus) and enjoy a great family life.

We live on 15,000 QR a month, once housing is taken out. I am not working at the moment, as I am enjoying being a stay at home mum to my first child.

We have a very expensive full time maid that we hired before I became pregnant and have decided to keep her on- she is very good. She lives out and we sponser her, so she is more expensive than a live in maid. We also have 2 cars, one we are paying off.

We do not save much each month, but we manage to pay our mortgage repayments in Australia plus extra, eat out when we choose to, and save a bit for holidays.

We find Qatar's living expensives to be very good when comparing to Sydney Australia. Meat which is mainly from Aus or NZ is about the same price as home. Fruit and vegetables are more expensive, although there are many local products available that are excellent and cheaper than Aus (especially the yummy cucumbers).

Disposable nappies are very cheap here and clothing prices are fantastic during the sales. It all depends on where you shop. If you go to the expat supermarkets and only buy the produce you are used too, it will be expensive. As you get to know Doha you will work out where to get the bargains.

We also attend Music lessons, swimming lessons and playgroup each week. So, we are not staying at home to save money! We go out often and have fun.

I think it all depends on where you are coming from. We lived in Germany before coming to Doha and find things are much cheaper here and the quality of food much better. I am sure you will find it much cheaper here than London!

Hope this puts your mind at rest.

Mish

Mish,
Thank you so much. This was a great help. My husband is actually from NZ (much, much cheaper than London) and my best friend is in Berlin (again much, much cheaper than London) so I now have a great idea of costs. All we hope to save away is our mortagage payments as we will have a tenant in our house so it all looks good. In any case with a bit of luck my husband will find some work either before or once we're there ( he is going to finish his accountacy qualification too so if he doesn't so be it). Our only real expense will be buying a car (but my employer gives us an interest free loan for that)
Thanks again,
Lachalla

No way is 8k enough. If you have kids you will need a villa and you will not find one of those for less than 12k

Yeah Super7 is true about the rent for a villa (if you are looking to get a villa?) and if you want an apartment then it could be enough or little more than your budget.

By the way, why did you choose this nick name (azraeil)???

Ayman

It's the Islamic Malaikatul-Maut (angel of death) and thats why I am surprized that someone use it.

for WR8,000 you might get a 3BD FF apartment but could be little far from the area of those schools.

Ayman

Hi ThomasSoerensen

I would like to discuss with you with regards to the IT consulting work in SAP area. Kindly write to me at bvv75/-a-t-/yahoo.com. Thanks.

Best Regards

There are some villas on a compound near landmark which is near QA for 10,500 a month. Three bedrooms with swimming pool etc on compound.

Call Emadi enterprises on +974 4666625

Don't know. Call them

ha ha ha ha will it be sufficient. Yes it will. You are earning about 30 times more than many of the workers!!

There is nothing else to spend your money on. House is covered, school is covered. Earning USD11,000 a month tax free.

Enjoy

Aramco,
The gated community is literally "gated".
Don't forget that yur wife cannot drive outside the gated compound in Saudi and the dress for women going outside is in black with head covered.
I would never have accepted anything in Saudi, only on bachelor status. Even then I would have given it a lot of thought.
Permanent in Saudi is also subject to nationalisation. When a Saudi can do the job.....bye bye expat!

May be Ayman or somebody else,

could you please help me locate Education City in Doha, it is supposed to be on the outskirts of the City, but close to what municipality? or neighborhood? is it close to Qatar U, way up there near West Bay Lagoon? Thank you !

Moudir

psss- it seems to common practice for companies and institutions to show a P.O.B. for address, but never a street name, a municipality or suburb name, etc. ?

Education City is a bit further west than Qatar Uni... and also slightly south, I believe... towards Al-Rayyan...?

Actually, looking on Google Earth, I think it might even be that complex at about 25°18'14.00 N, 51°23'0.00 E.... and if not, it is very close to there, anyway. :)

Thank you Loki and lili(by the way i'm not in Doha yet, you know that..!? :)

i'm trying to decide where i should be living to be close to my work, and my wife close to her eventual work... or may be we should be living separately, each close to his/her respective work place... :):)

TTFN, Moudir

Try negotiating. It won't hurt. Is it a permanent or contract position?

That's not too bad. What grade are they offering you as this will determined your housing allowance. The only problem I see in Doha is the accomodation, what you don't want to happen is you having to dip into your base salary to top-up for your accomodation. QP's housing allowance I'm told ranges from QR9000 to QR12000 if you're on family status (it's half the amount if you're on single status). Try your luck and see if they are willing to nego on your base salary.

Loki & lili, Edu City is indeed in Al-Rayyan municipality and is located on Al-luqta street, which changes name from Khalifa street (near the water front). Thank you.

Moudir

Loki & lili, Edu City is indeed in Al-Rayyan municipality and is located on Al-luqta street, which changes name from Khalifa street (near the water front). Thank you.

Moudir

Loki & lili, Edu City is indeed in Al-Rayyan municipality and is located on Al-luqta street, which changes name from Khalifa street (near the water front). Thank you.

Moudir

Loki & lili, Edu City is indeed in Al-Rayyan municipality and is located on Al-luqta street, which changes name from Khalifa street (near the water front). Thank you.

Moudir

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i donno what happened. I find this site so excrutiatingly SLOOOW !!!
Is it the same for everyone else ?

Moudir, I definately agree with you that this site is far too slow. It's partly due to the forum architecture. If the administrator really wants to upgrade this site into a full fledged (awesome) forum; and believe me it does have that potential then the more techie people here should, together with the original maker of this site should set up a team......admin, moderator etc. The best (and I can vouch for it) forum software is vBulletin Version 3.5.3, powered by Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. If you want to see how large and complex a site can become, visit www.expat.ru

It has become my number one source of information whilst in Moscow, and it is truly and awesome site.

Food for thought admin???

Bvv77
is Qp paying for transfer of you personal effects, if yes how much for a family of three? any conditions?
How much do they pay for furniture and car loan?

QP

car loan up to 5 times basic salary. Furniture for my hubby's level 45.000 QR. That was over 4 yrs ago.

Hi Lachalla

I have finally received an offer by email from QU today at 28K per month. Now we have to think about it. I also noticed that there was no car loan. Is this standard for QU? For some reason I thought that was part of the package!

Akal

bvv75, I got some info from collegues who worked in QP about the supplementary housing allowance. I then confirmed it with QP HR. Yes, it's not in the contract so you'd better get some written answer on the supplementary allowance (mine was in an email).

As for transfers, QP doesn't pay you much. They will give you a lump sump amount (which frankly is pretty darn pathethic) and that's about it.

If you're on definite contract (most likely 3 years), then you get 30 days annual leave and 3x base pay for your car loan (the 5x base pay car loan is for indefinite employee). Furniture allowance is still 45000 so nothing's changed much since 4 years ago as mentioned by novita

Aramco is offering me USD8,000 a month net, with USD21,000 signing-on bonus not to mention USD12,000 annual bonus. Housing is fully furnished for USD500 nominal rent with free utilities. It's an indefinite term as compared to QP's definite term. The money is just too good to pass up with Aramco. I'll be making my decision by the end of next week, the money pull is too strong.

Hi Everyone,

I am scheduled to move in to Doha on 01 May from Bombay India. My wife currently works as a branch manager for a leading bank here. We would like for her to continue working is as much similar level as possible. Jobs in banks seem to be awfully few in Doha and for sponsored candidates - only junior levels - is this right? Can some one advise if it would be better for her to travel with me and then look for a job or resign and take the plunge and then work it out?

so noone can help m