View Poll Results: How does your company cover school fees?
A
13
54.17%
B
4
16.67%
C
4
16.67%
D
3
12.50%
E
1
4.17%
1
8
33.33%
2
5
20.83%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 24. You may not vote on this poll
How does your company cover school fees?
#16
Re: How does your company cover school fees?
Company will pay a multiple of basic salary towards school fees which varies by grade - but all nationalities treated equally.
For the driver, this is enough to cover all of his kids school fees back in Kerala though for some relatively senior professionals it doesn't cover full school fees here in UAE.
For the driver, this is enough to cover all of his kids school fees back in Kerala though for some relatively senior professionals it doesn't cover full school fees here in UAE.
#17
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I don't understand this (I would like too for sure). If you negotiate an all in package that covers your school fees, maids, golf, housing, utilities and savings aspirations does it really matter?
It's the total value that counts, not how your employer tells you how to apportion it.
It's the total value that counts, not how your employer tells you how to apportion it.
#18
Re: How does your company cover school fees?
I don't understand this (I would like too for sure). If you negotiate an all in package that covers your school fees, maids, golf, housing, utilities and savings aspirations does it really matter?
It's the total value that counts, not how your employer tells you how to apportion it.
It's the total value that counts, not how your employer tells you how to apportion it.
#20
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fair point - I'm now on 4 cheques so no big deal - when it was a year, My employer paid and did monthly deductions. This is why I pay the school fees on the first day of term
#22
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$25,000 per child....but it's a known but unwritten fact that more than 2 kids and you don't get a move.
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Re: How does your company cover school fees?
School fees aren't salaries. It's an use it or lose it benefit. Expats in Dubai have to use the international schools and the school fees are just an indirect transfer of wealth from the companies to the schools.
So much for a tax free state....
So much for a tax free state....
#24
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Re: How does your company cover school fees?
Never mind school fees that are fortunately a given with my employer, what about nursery fees and summer school fees that arent
5000 aed a term for nursery fees (3 days a week) and 1000 aed a week (3 days) for summer school.
My package really does need amending to cover these.
Whilst looking down on those with all in packages I still look up to our Directors packages which include maids allowances and club memberships. Aspirational and long may those packages continue. All spoken with Messers Barker, Corbett and Clees intonation before the all in package mob get frightfully upset
5000 aed a term for nursery fees (3 days a week) and 1000 aed a week (3 days) for summer school.
My package really does need amending to cover these.
Whilst looking down on those with all in packages I still look up to our Directors packages which include maids allowances and club memberships. Aspirational and long may those packages continue. All spoken with Messers Barker, Corbett and Clees intonation before the all in package mob get frightfully upset
#25
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we get a grand total of... nowt for school fees. Didn't in Mr Kitty's previous company either - such is the lot of the all-in packager.
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Re: How does your company cover school fees?
Sign of the times. Millhouse made a good point about being better off if you have kids compared to if you dont...sometimes packages work that way.
I like the all-in system, it's more real and more suitable to to such a 'soft' expat posting like Dubai.
#27
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Thats the way so many are going now.
Sign of the times. Millhouse made a good point about being better off if you have kids compared to if you dont...sometimes packages work that way.
I like the all-in system, it's more real and more suitable to to such a 'soft' expat posting like Dubai.
Sign of the times. Millhouse made a good point about being better off if you have kids compared to if you dont...sometimes packages work that way.
I like the all-in system, it's more real and more suitable to to such a 'soft' expat posting like Dubai.
Even though Dubai is relatively a soft expat posting, it is much harder to have employees relocate an entire family than for singles/DINKYs. Family friendly packages are a key mechanism for getting experienced staff out here rather than younger people with little experience who think they know everything already (but don't).
Kids are very expensive, I can't see how you can possibly be 'better off' ie. more disposable income, even with family packages.
#28
Re: How does your company cover school fees?
Thats the way so many are going now.
Sign of the times. Millhouse made a good point about being better off if you have kids compared to if you dont...sometimes packages work that way.
I like the all-in system, it's more real and more suitable to to such a 'soft' expat posting like Dubai.
Sign of the times. Millhouse made a good point about being better off if you have kids compared to if you dont...sometimes packages work that way.
I like the all-in system, it's more real and more suitable to to such a 'soft' expat posting like Dubai.
#29
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A 'family expat' will cost more to employ. However, one would hope that it is because they are a bit older and have more experience. However, a guy with 3 kids should cost no more to employ than a guy with 2 kids if they bring the same experience and skills to the table.
Remember, kids are the decision of the parent not the employer.
Now, don't me started on Mother & Child parking bays.
Remember, kids are the decision of the parent not the employer.
Now, don't me started on Mother & Child parking bays.
#30
Re: How does your company cover school fees?
I hope that this is all accounted for in Microsoft Money.