I can understand the logic behind a little disparity between salaries, because the main attraction for many people working in the ME isn't to settle and assimilate, but for many it is to save up or remit monies home.
In those circumstances, I can understand that an employer might take that kind of thing into account. I mean, if a person earns the equivalent of, say 100 USD per month (I'm using this as a nice round number). After living costs most employees have 10 per cent left over. (Again, I'm inventing numbers, so keeping them nice and round).
If you get an American employee sending home their spare 10 USD a month, you'd probably be lucky to buy a big mac meal. But in some countries, 10USD might be equivalent to a day's pay, or even a week's. So it wouldn't be proportionate.
And the American might feel rightfully aggrieved that s/he had relocated their family halfway across the world, uprooted them, taken them away from their friends and family, and they didn't have any proper savings or benefits to show for their sacrifice.
While... erm, I don't know much about the other economies, but if someone from rural China came over, from an impoverished place where people lived on a dollar a day (and there are still places like that around the world) they might feel fairly rich. Although of course, in other parts of China, there are people who earn and spend way more than someone who is unemployed, with no medical insurance, living in a trailer park.
Anyway, that's my explanation of what's possibly behind some of the disparities, I think the employers take into account how much you might be saving and sending back home, and take into account the economy of your home country, what an equivalent salary would be there.
I can understand the logic behind a little disparity between salaries, because the main attraction for many people working in the ME isn't to settle and assimilate, but for many it is to save up or remit monies home.
In those circumstances, I can understand that an employer might take that kind of thing into account. I mean, if a person earns the equivalent of, say 100 USD per month (I'm using this as a nice round number). After living costs most employees have 10 per cent left over. (Again, I'm inventing numbers, so keeping them nice and round).
If you get an American employee sending home their spare 10 USD a month, you'd probably be lucky to buy a big mac meal. But in some countries, 10USD might be equivalent to a day's pay, or even a week's. So it wouldn't be proportionate.
And the American might feel rightfully aggrieved that s/he had relocated their family halfway across the world, uprooted them, taken them away from their friends and family, and they didn't have any proper savings or benefits to show for their sacrifice.
While... erm, I don't know much about the other economies, but if someone from rural China came over, from an impoverished place where people lived on a dollar a day (and there are still places like that around the world) they might feel fairly rich. Although of course, in other parts of China, there are people who earn and spend way more than someone who is unemployed, with no medical insurance, living in a trailer park.
Anyway, that's my explanation of what's possibly behind some of the disparities, I think the employers take into account how much you might be saving and sending back home, and take into account the economy of your home country, what an equivalent salary would be there.