Hey dude. From your post history it seems like this may be a little too late. That didn't stop me from registering on this site just so I could respond to your question and maybe help you out. The package seems reasonable, your biggest expense here will be housing, groceries and transportation. Arguably, you could've gotten more but that ship has sailed.
Housing is a particularly tricky one. Although you have it covered, you'll want to make sure that youre not tied to a particular compound and have the ability to move around if you wish and trade in the "provided" accommodation for an allowance. A decent two bedroom place can range anywhere from 12000 - 16000 if you stick to Canadian standards (and trust me, you'll want to).
Groceries will cost you 2000-2500 QAR a month. A reasonable amount to pay for car payments is around 3000 QAR a month which means you've got a loan of about 70,000 QAR. To put it into perspective, a decent vehicle will cost you anything between 90k - 140k depending on the make and model.
To put to rest some of the other BS going on in this thread and generally in the salary/allowance section of this forum, it is definitely not unheard of to be taking home anything from 40-70k a month total (including housing/transportation costs) + extra education allowances for western expats. In my opinion, the quality of life you are compromising coming here from the west (North America especially) warrants that sort of compensation. In my experience a lot of the info on qatarliving is heavily influenced by people from south/east Asia who are unfortunately treated differently when it comes to compensation.
Anyway, I hope this was remotely helpful. Feel free to get in touch when/if you make it here.
Hey dude. From your post history it seems like this may be a little too late. That didn't stop me from registering on this site just so I could respond to your question and maybe help you out. The package seems reasonable, your biggest expense here will be housing, groceries and transportation. Arguably, you could've gotten more but that ship has sailed.
Housing is a particularly tricky one. Although you have it covered, you'll want to make sure that youre not tied to a particular compound and have the ability to move around if you wish and trade in the "provided" accommodation for an allowance. A decent two bedroom place can range anywhere from 12000 - 16000 if you stick to Canadian standards (and trust me, you'll want to).
Groceries will cost you 2000-2500 QAR a month. A reasonable amount to pay for car payments is around 3000 QAR a month which means you've got a loan of about 70,000 QAR. To put it into perspective, a decent vehicle will cost you anything between 90k - 140k depending on the make and model.
To put to rest some of the other BS going on in this thread and generally in the salary/allowance section of this forum, it is definitely not unheard of to be taking home anything from 40-70k a month total (including housing/transportation costs) + extra education allowances for western expats. In my opinion, the quality of life you are compromising coming here from the west (North America especially) warrants that sort of compensation. In my experience a lot of the info on qatarliving is heavily influenced by people from south/east Asia who are unfortunately treated differently when it comes to compensation.
Anyway, I hope this was remotely helpful. Feel free to get in touch when/if you make it here.