Need advice ASAP on Big 4 Job Offer!
Jun 2nd 2009, 5:02 pm
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Need advice ASAP on Big 4 Job Offer!
I am a Newly Qualified Accountant with a Big 4 firm in London.
My current UK salary is £42,000 p.a.
I have been offered a role within a Big 4 firm in Dubai to work in Audit.
My package is:
Basic 9,350 AED p.m.
Housing 4,100 AED p.m.
Transport 900 AED p.m.
Overtime 1,500 AED p.m. (budgeted overtime - over 50 hours a week)
Total 15,850
$2,000 relocation allowance, 22 days holiday, 1 flight home a year,
I am a single guy looking to have a comfortable bachelor lifestyle in Dubai. Would like to have my own rented studio or 1 bed apartment in JBR or similar, and have a good car of approximate value of 80,000AED. I would also like to save 1500 AED per month.
Would appreciate any advise you have to offer.
Many thanks!
My current UK salary is £42,000 p.a.
I have been offered a role within a Big 4 firm in Dubai to work in Audit.
My package is:
Basic 9,350 AED p.m.
Housing 4,100 AED p.m.
Transport 900 AED p.m.
Overtime 1,500 AED p.m. (budgeted overtime - over 50 hours a week)
Total 15,850
$2,000 relocation allowance, 22 days holiday, 1 flight home a year,
I am a single guy looking to have a comfortable bachelor lifestyle in Dubai. Would like to have my own rented studio or 1 bed apartment in JBR or similar, and have a good car of approximate value of 80,000AED. I would also like to save 1500 AED per month.
Would appreciate any advise you have to offer.
Many thanks!
Jun 2nd 2009, 6:07 pm
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Re: Need advice ASAP on Big 4 Job Offer!
Why are you even considering this package ? AED 15850 pm equals just over GBP 2641 pm which is GBP 31,700 PA so you will be worse off ! I'd stay at home or go else where if I were you. There are a lot of very poor offers out there at the moment and I hope people are sensible enough to say no and move on - UAE is an expensive place to live so you need a decent salary to live.
Jun 2nd 2009, 9:51 pm
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Re: Need advice ASAP on Big 4 Job Offer!
Saving 1500AED a month would leave you with around £1.5k to live on, your housing allowance will get you a room in a shared house... your transport allowance wouldn't even get you a Lancer 1.3... and hello?! Overtime factored in to you salary - OVER 50 hours a week?! That's just Carte Blanche to be taken advantage of at every opportunity!
No, no no and no... not with a bargepole.
Jun 3rd 2009, 11:04 am
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Re: Need advice ASAP on Big 4 Job Offer!
Why are you even considering this package ? AED 15850 pm equals just over GBP 2641 pm which is GBP 31,700 PA so you will be worse off ! I'd stay at home or go else where if I were you. There are a lot of very poor offers out there at the moment and I hope people are sensible enough to say no and move on - UAE is an expensive place to live so you need a decent salary to live.
Add back the tax on the UAE salary and it works out more or less the same. Big 4 will pay pretty much the same where ever you go.
Jun 3rd 2009, 5:04 pm
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Re: Need advice ASAP on Big 4 Job Offer!
Really thick oilfield trash here, but WTF exactly is the 'big 4'??
Jun 3rd 2009, 5:24 pm
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Re: Need advice ASAP on Big 4 Job Offer!
**** me, I gathered that mate, who???
Price waterhoose?
Price waterhoose?
Jun 4th 2009, 2:28 am
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Re: Need advice ASAP on Big 4 Job Offer!
Better to work for one of the BIG 4 Supermarkets - they would certainly pay you better 
Re: Need advice ASAP on Big 4 Job Offer!
Jun 4th 2009, 6:33 pm
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Re: Need advice ASAP on Big 4 Job Offer!
Magic, my life is complete..
Actually my pal is a director with KPMG.
Don't know why I felt the need to say that...
Actually my pal is a director with KPMG.
Don't know why I felt the need to say that...
Jun 9th 2009, 5:58 am
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Re: Need advice ASAP on Big 4 Job Offer!
I am a Newly Qualified Accountant with a Big 4 firm in London.
My current UK salary is £42,000 p.a.
I have been offered a role within a Big 4 firm in Dubai to work in Audit.
My package is:
Basic 9,350 AED p.m.
Housing 4,100 AED p.m.
Transport 900 AED p.m.
Overtime 1,500 AED p.m. (budgeted overtime - over 50 hours a week)
Total 15,850
$2,000 relocation allowance, 22 days holiday, 1 flight home a year,
I am a single guy looking to have a comfortable bachelor lifestyle in Dubai. Would like to have my own rented studio or 1 bed apartment in JBR or similar, and have a good car of approximate value of 80,000AED. I would also like to save 1500 AED per month.
Would appreciate any advise you have to offer.
Many thanks!
My current UK salary is £42,000 p.a.
I have been offered a role within a Big 4 firm in Dubai to work in Audit.
My package is:
Basic 9,350 AED p.m.
Housing 4,100 AED p.m.
Transport 900 AED p.m.
Overtime 1,500 AED p.m. (budgeted overtime - over 50 hours a week)
Total 15,850
$2,000 relocation allowance, 22 days holiday, 1 flight home a year,
I am a single guy looking to have a comfortable bachelor lifestyle in Dubai. Would like to have my own rented studio or 1 bed apartment in JBR or similar, and have a good car of approximate value of 80,000AED. I would also like to save 1500 AED per month.
Would appreciate any advise you have to offer.
Many thanks!
