Here are my views regarding your questions: 1) Since you hold a western passport, you can expect a good salary which would depend also on the company you are joining. Since, you were already here, possibly you may have got some feel about the salary structure in your field of work here in Qatar. Try contacting some of your colleagues at your company you worked for here and they could guide you best. 2) An average single room flat would be around QR 5000 per month. You could also go for studio apartments which are furnished but since you plan to bring in your family for a month or so, these apartments may become too congested when they are here. 3) From what I have read at QL, schools are costly here, especially those which are managed by westerners. The decision of putting your children in a school here can made only by you after you have weighed all the options such as cost, standard of education, and your income. 4) If you do your own cooking you can manage easily within a 1000 Riyals per month. Most foreign workers here prefer to cook at home as a cost-saving measure.