Hi,
I am Belgian and I received an offer for IT position evelopment Manager in Business intelligence
I have more than 15 years experience in IT domain and 6 years in BI domains
I have a wife an daugther 9 years old

The offer is :
salary 17.600 AED
house 12.500 AED
travel 1.380 AED
primary 40.000 per academic year
secondary 60.000 per academic year


What you think about this salary ?

Thanks in advance
aok

What do YOU think about the salary and package?

Seems pretty good for IT.

Yes, what you think about about the salary and package

But what do you think about it?

I have no idea about IT salary

Do you not work in IT now, earning a salary?

That's a little unfair, the OP is just asking if this seems to be a decent salary.

You can't compare IT salaries like-for-like between here and Europe.

Scamp ,If you have no answer to give please don't send a post

He's only pulling your leg a bit mate , take it easy captain .

Here you go . The benefits seem good but the salary is on the low side , ask them for another 7000 AED .

The benefits are slightly disproportionate to the salary so in my opinion you might be able to negotiate a better basic .

It's not unfair at all.

It's a perfectly reasonable thing to ask.

"What do you think of your job offer?"

That's an easy way to see whether it's light or amazing or on the button.

Everybody compares between here and home, the norm on here is to demand an increase of 245,698% on the EU salary to work here....so there are comparisons to be made.

All in all, it wasn't unfair and you can draw comparisons. Maybe the way I did it wasn't the best, but that's kind of tough now.

Oh, and by the way...I think it's a bit light, ask for more. 15yrs experience deserves a bit more.

Can't hurt to ask.

a good rule of thumb is at a minimum to ask for the following to be directly organised by the company and/or the full amount added to your salary on top of basic:
* housing (this really is something that you should get the company to do - as you dont want to pay a whole year in advance)
* utilities (again, if directly debited to the company much easier for you)
* schooling
* return flight home once per year for you & all your dependents
* medical insurance valid in the country you live & work (not always the same for the Saudi-Bahrain commuters!) for you & all your dependents

car rental or transport allowance is a nice to have but not an essential

25-30 paid days of vacation time; plus public holidays off & paid for (or compensated by time in lieu or money)

end of year service bonus should be a minimum of one month

performance bonus is negotiable

then the crux: your base salary. A good rule of thumb is to take your Home country salary before tax and ask for that as a minimum.

So for example, in the UK I would pay 40% tax. I get the same gross salary here, but obviously don't pay tax, so my net income has that extra 40% - which is good enough for me!

The tone of your replies had the air of typical recruitment arrogance.

That's irrelevant. I asked a question back, your interpretation of tone is up to you, if you want to make it a personal thing and say I'm arrogant based on the job I do then that's your perogative....no, acutally, I'd suggest that's your issue based on your arrogance towards people of a 'lesser' role / job.

But hey, AOK I think you need to ask for more on the basic definitely.