Qatar Salaries Highest in Region
The National reports that Qatar tops salary list as UAE payrises fall
Professionals in Qatar make more money than their counterparts in any other country in the Middle East, knocking the UAE off the top spot it has commanded for the past year.
More than a third of Qatar’s white-collar workers, or 39 per cent, earn between US$3,001 (Dh11,000) and $8,000 each month, higher than the UAE, where 37 per cent earn between those levels, according to research by the employment website Bayt.com, in conjunction with the polling company YouGov Siraj.
Does that mean you're all overpaid or that the cost of living is just higher?
yeboy
survey shows only in small group og profesinals what about skilled worker that earned only 800- 1500qar, most of them are de motivated from what they earned
17 May 2010
DOHA: The average monthly salary in Qatar is QR7,800 with the income of males being QR8,484, which is 38.9 percent more than the average for women (QR6,106).
The average monthly pay package in the private sector worked out to QR5,391, which was nearly three times less than the average in the government sector (QR14,631).
The findings of a Labour Force Sample Survey Conducted by the Qatar Statistic Authority (QSA) late last year reveal the average monthly pay package of 'legislators, senior officials and managers' was a high of QR27,616.
The average for professionals, on the other hand, worked out to QR15,186, while the pay package of plant and machine operators was QR2,329. Interestingly, skilled agricultural workers drew an average monthly salary of QR3,118.
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@ ivan21,this whole "if you don't like it go back to your country" line is REALLY getting tiring mate,it's bad enough certain locals say it simply because they have NOTHING else to reply when asked a question or are pointed to something that's wrong but if we expats get on the same bandwagon,where's the hope?...this is an online forum mate & like any other online forum anywhere on the planet,every issue raised will have people for & against the issue,that's what makes it a debate,to have everyone agree & say "yes sir" wheather they mean it or not completely defeats the purpose,this country doesn't allow freedom of expression of any sort,be it speech or otherwise,however they have allowed this site to function despite knowing the kind of views people express,so it's a step in the right direction from their side,we as expats shouldn't be taking a step back by saying "oh you don't like it go back to your country."...people are asking for what they believe they deserve,just because it's better than your home country DOES NOT mean you put up with ANYTHING that's offered,that speaks of a very low level of self confidence mate & quite frankly,they're looking for more people like you,who are simply content with the fact"oh i earn way more here than i would in my home country so i'll put up with whatever crap is dished out to me."...fortunately that breed is slowly but surely decreasing in this town...
Well for me its just a survey...whether Qatar is the highest or not, I am already grateful that I have a job that compensates me better than back home afterall that's the reason why we are all here. I always believe in the saying "If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen" so if you can't stand the compensation here then go back to your country.
jane01, may be your salary gone high but, not me so u enjoy, i will suffer....heheheheheh
The actual survey results will be known only when the government officials interview middle management staff and not top management staff as the top management positions are held by locals or westerners. Thus there salaries are increased from time to time on a regular basis with a hell a lot of benefits but have they asked the middle or lower management staff what they feel. The answer is a "BIG NO". Hence, get the basics right rather than jumping to conclusions....
Why is this post still at the top of QL home site. Is someone paying QL to have it up there. sensational journalism that serves no purpose whatsoever.
whoever made this survey didn't know what he was doing.. is it your first time to gather data? go back to school.. nuts..
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Someone cribbing about a "low" salary of 30,000 QR, someone somewhere in Qatar is going crazy with happiness because he got a salary of 1000 QR. It's a beautiful world.
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cost of living is more here now , and an income of 10000 qr will help only to live a mediam standered life with couple of kids, and above all we should not forget the saving factor also,we are not in EU or US that what we earn ,spend it on weekends.
no one should forget that ,because of the better offering packages , qatar has definitly captured the highly experianced menpower from other GCC, specially technicians /engineers/doctors etc.
Looks like they dont know that Industrial area is in Qatar.
whoever made this survey is nuts! how come my colleague transferred his family to abu dhabi and is enjoying more benefits that what he had here before?
question is why would you leave qatar if your salary is way better than what UAE can give you?
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Yeah, let's see the breakdown:
Salary: QR 30,000
Rent: QR 15,000
Food, School for kids, etc: QR 12,000
Basic entertainment needs on weekends: QR 2,000
LEFTOVER MONEY TO SAVE: QR 1,000
Big deal, westerners could be saving alot more elsewhere .........
This is frustrating b/c some unlucky people are unemployed and still hunting such like me.
unfortunately, unjustice is widespread but people should be satisfied
Well I guess from everyones response that the survey is heavily skewed to their capture method.
website survey means nothing. the ministry of labour would be better as working out pay assuming there was no bias.
Pay is nothing if the cost of living is high, just ask those who were lured with the promise of no income tax only to discover that they need the extra money and more to maintain any standard.
The labourers who may be unskilled but are so badly paid on the premise that its better than back home.
I don't understand why this fuss about higher wages if so many companies were retrenching their staff to take on cheaper labour from elsewhere including UAE.
to get a more accurate reflection of salaries would mean you would have to ask those privileged few at the top if they would willingly divulge their salaries, what you think is the response ?!.
the issue of increase in fianancial sector workers has been covered before and like the idea of rents going down, i'll believe it when i see it.
** Did they include the 500 QR's paid workers, who are maybe reaching 1Million,..!!
Looks like the survey only covers the previledge few. The ratio between those who earns fat salaries and the thousands others who earns merge salaries is quite big. Even if they strictly means "white collar jobs" the gaps is still very large
This is a big Joke.. The country has many underlying and secret issues. For instance, salaries are not being paid on time. Some not being paid at all. It's a publicity stunt. Maybe for Qataris or other Arabs the salary is high and paid on time. But for other nationalities. It's sure is HELL....
Maybe the survey has been conducted from offices but not on the construction sites or in Industrial area for example...
That is quite in correct. There was a time when employees in Qatar got higher salaries than their counterparts in UAE but at present its the other way round.
La Grande Dame
No, we are not overpaid as the cost of living is much higher too. Having recently been asked to look at his contract by a labourer as he wanted to know whether he is entitled to overtime, I can assure you that his salary was anything but overpaid and in fact, I would say, exceedingly underpaid.
In other words, it's the usual eye-wash-bullsh*t.
what do you expect on salary statistics?
i would like to opine that most of the samples were taken from those who were generously paid but have lots of time to do things like.... responding to salary surveys.
do you think lowly paid workers would spend time on the internet and responding to surveys? or can they really have access to internet at work or at labor camps?
the survey is flawed in the first place, since the statistical distrubution of the samples is not well represented at all level of working populace.
I ever asked two of the taxi drivers in Doha, about their salary. They said, the money they can earn each month is around 2000 riyals. So... what do you think?
the result of the survey is not realistic. the data shows only the ones that are getting good pay. why not start from 800QR which other workers get to the majority of 2500QR(mean). this survey looks like it has been designed to meet that "expected" result.
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They should have included poor people like me in the survey
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The survey participants numbers are very few only. So can't believe/accept this fully.
In my personal opinion, this survey i think has been made only on a few % of high income group who are in job luckily, today's reality, is that there are hardly any jobs in Qatar especially the back office categories - both managerial and sub-ordinate staff category.
The best example, is please review the ads in publications, free ads in qatarliving, those have been advertised for the position has been repeated many times, it is not that they are asking some exceptional qualifications for which they cannot find a suitable candidate. It is just that they dont want to hire.
Another witness is the long list of situation wanted ads in Qatar's dailies placed by various job seeking aspirants, professionals ranging from 5 to 20 years experience in their field.
There appears to be vacancies in the form of adverts, but the companies are not actually hiring.
As a conclusion, such a survey can only be valid when there is a striking balance between demand/supply of manpower with a market value of Salary according to QUALIFICATIONS (I REALLY MEAN IN THE SENSE) AND EXPERIENCE, which I feel that this GCC region has to focus to build on its growth of economy, otherwise HUMAN RESOURCES WILL ALWAYS BE A CHALLENGE ESPECIALLY IN THIS COUNTRY. In comparison, why Dubai is still surviving inspite of crisis, because they have fairly maintained the balance between these.
...Life would become Dull if there were no such Difficulties...
The Survey done only in higher level.. whot about the law level who really contributes towards the success in Qatar. Specially Nepali community… u mean to say that Nepali worker is paid Qr. 8000/= ?????????
it means the richer are getting richer and the workers are getting nowhere!!
Surely survey done with few privileged expats or else they would not have missed that many are getting paid just 500-800QR per month.
"It is better to be hated for what you are than being loved for what you are not."
I think its correct else who will pay 30000 QR for QLing!!
Nothing new - more nonsensical figures that they pull out from places where the sun doesn't shine.
to commensurate with a deserted LIFE in Qatar ;D
spend life counting money and die one day
survey is only to those people with high salaries(Western). but for small and medium salaries are not fit to sustain compared to the cost of living here in qatar.
i think it's a bit of both ..
how about factoring in rents & other cost of living?...there's no point getting Qrs. 20,000 if you're going to be spending more than half of that on rent & daily expenses now is there?...
survey included only highly paid personnels... m sure they didn't included all...
Well the report is true and people living in Qatar will endorse that the salaries are higher than other countries in GCC. But what about the cost of living in Qatar, the availability of basic amenities to the local people or the expartiates who are working as labourers. Just by giving a handful indivuals good salaries doesn't mean that Qatar is flourishing for all its residents.
For Qatar to reach to a level of UAE, it has to undergo many changes, because UAE totally understands the problems of their locals and as well as Expartiates, whereas in Qatar its totally governmental decisions which are basically based on religious clerics or people who have never faced any general probelms being faced by the local population.
I guess more reservations for people of local population and also to have the expartiate involvement in the decisions pertaining to basic infratsurtuce facilities should be facilitated. Which will bring about a great change towards Qatar being truly expectational for all the people to live in. This is just my personal view
This is because so many people have a high opinion of themselves. The term or tittle "Professional" used in Qatar, doesn't mean what it means in other countries.
Much in the same way "Engineer" means auto mechanic to many locals.
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