What percentage of your salary do you spend on rent?
Jan 13th 2013, 3:40 pm
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What percentage of your salary do you spend on rent?
Including your DEWA bills, TV & internet?
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Jan 13th 2013, 3:53 pm
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Re: What percentage of your salary do you spend on rent?
13% approx
Jan 13th 2013, 4:17 pm
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Re: What percentage of your salary do you spend on rent?
None
Jan 13th 2013, 4:32 pm
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Re: What percentage of your salary do you spend on rent?
None. All paid for by the company.
Jan 13th 2013, 4:35 pm
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Re: What percentage of your salary do you spend on rent?
20% ish
Jan 13th 2013, 4:49 pm
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Re: What percentage of your salary do you spend on rent?
25%. I'd be willing to spend up to 33% on the right place, but certainly no more than that.
Jan 13th 2013, 4:53 pm
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Jan 13th 2013, 5:01 pm
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Re: What percentage of your salary do you spend on rent?
It's about 28% for me, including DEWA.
In general, and as auzdafluff implies, housing shouldn't really take up more than a 1/3 of your income, if possible.
In general, and as auzdafluff implies, housing shouldn't really take up more than a 1/3 of your income, if possible.
Jan 13th 2013, 5:43 pm
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Re: What percentage of your salary do you spend on rent?
34% for me. I wish I could reduce it, but not easy when you have a family.
family in Dubai = serious wallet-injury
family in Dubai = serious wallet-injury
Jan 13th 2013, 6:06 pm
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Re: What percentage of your salary do you spend on rent?
9.2%, don't live in Dubai though.....
Jan 13th 2013, 6:25 pm
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Re: What percentage of your salary do you spend on rent?
So there
Hence zero for me on the percentage
Last edited by weasel decentral; Jan 13th 2013 at 6:26 pm. Reason: remembered the OP question
Jan 13th 2013, 6:52 pm
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Re: What percentage of your salary do you spend on rent?
From the money tree....
Let me break the bad news to you, all those 'benefits' and 'allowances' you have to earn for your employer to pay them out on your behalf. It's an accounting entry name difference only, but at the end of the day your complete package is your salary. This is what you make whatever name is put against this entry in your contract.
Let me break the bad news to you, all those 'benefits' and 'allowances' you have to earn for your employer to pay them out on your behalf. It's an accounting entry name difference only, but at the end of the day your complete package is your salary. This is what you make whatever name is put against this entry in your contract.
Jan 13th 2013, 6:54 pm
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Re: What percentage of your salary do you spend on rent?
22.5%
Jan 13th 2013, 7:02 pm
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Re: What percentage of your salary do you spend on rent?
Really? So after your salary is paid for, the housing allowance is paid from proceeds of lottery winings or from kindness of heart of the employer. After they finish negotiating with you, they don't draw one bottom line under 'cost of employing this guy'?