What percentage of your salary do you spend on rent?
#16
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Re: What percentage of your salary do you spend on rent?
6.5%.
#17
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9.5 % in sunny Kuwait just on rent
(No idea on electricity - but its dirt cheap here - i think i paid 160KD for 2 years of electricity as i had forgotten!)
0 on tv (apart from the initial 19KD on a satellite box)
(No idea on electricity - but its dirt cheap here - i think i paid 160KD for 2 years of electricity as i had forgotten!)
0 on tv (apart from the initial 19KD on a satellite box)
#18
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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.
24.8%
Although my rent loan will be paid off in April and not due until end of November
#19
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Its not like if I get a lower salary they will give me a huge housing rate or vice versa.
The post I replied to mentioned if I didn't have a housing allowance I would earn more, not true in my case.
An dtuigeann tĂș ?
#20
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27% of salary, but my job is fairly bonus driven.
#21
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I am not disputing where it comes from, I am saying that the two don't aggregate for me, I can have a higher or lower salary and it will not affect the rate they will give me for housing.
Its not like if I get a lower salary they will give me a huge housing rate or vice versa.
The post I replied to mentioned if I didn't have a housing allowance I would earn more, not true in my case.
An dtuigeann tĂș ?
Its not like if I get a lower salary they will give me a huge housing rate or vice versa.
The post I replied to mentioned if I didn't have a housing allowance I would earn more, not true in my case.
An dtuigeann tĂș ?
If John Smith wanted to leave Company A who paid him 30,000 + 20,000 Housing (paid directly by co) + Car Provided...he'd be asking Company B (who operate an all in package figure to sort out shit yourself) for 30,000 + 20,000 + 5,000 (roughly for car) + whatever else he could try and get himself.
So in essence it's pretty irrelevant. Some people (not meaning you or others on here) love to be able to say they get everything provided. Other folk don't give a shit. It's the same value package.
#23
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5%, Though it was 28% for the 1st 10 months.
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#27
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I live in Doha. I also live in sin thus greatly reducing my outgoings.
#28
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It doesn't matter how you divide or what terminology you want to use it still costs X to employ Y .
Thats why i would never look to employ married guys with kids in bog standard positions if possible because the cost is horrific . Obviously it's different for different industries but you find a lot of firms still don't account very well .
There was a margin a few years ago but a lot of that is stripped out now .
#29
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12% for now, but would love to move to a better/further place and would even be willing to pay 20% as soon as Im allowed to drive (back problems)
reason for moving to a better place : the neighbors let out their kids every afternoon to run around in the corridors and its doing my ***ing head in!
complained a million times to the management and they send their guy but no use, the kids are out as soon as the guard leaves
dont want to resort to the police route, any suggestions? i was thinking of geting myself a big dog
reason for moving to a better place : the neighbors let out their kids every afternoon to run around in the corridors and its doing my ***ing head in!
complained a million times to the management and they send their guy but no use, the kids are out as soon as the guard leaves
dont want to resort to the police route, any suggestions? i was thinking of geting myself a big dog
#30
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Re: What percentage of your salary do you spend on rent?
About 19%. At the height of the ridiculous rents, I was paying about 40%.