List of some Entry Jobs into the UAE

Some job titles have a large salary range (highest is 5x-10x lowest) - generally means that, Emirati, GCC, and Western nationals (or possibly those holding Western qualifications if relevant) will be more likely to earn the top end salaries, whilst Asians, Africans, and Middle East (not GCC) nationalities will be paid low-range salaries.

Some will view this as been racism, others will view it as reflecting education, experience, work ethic, and other generalizations. What matters to you personally is the minimum that your company thinks they can get away with paying you, at the same time, you can't easily change your nationality, you can change your qualifications, your experience, how you present yourself, etc.

Job titles which have a smaller salary range (highest is 1x-3x lowest) are more likely to pay dependent on experience, qualifications, sometimes size of company, and less dependent on nationality.

However, nationality might be a factor in determining whether or not a person actually gets hired for the higher paying jobs (this usually won't be made clear in job advertisements or interviews, and is more likely in small companies which don't have HR departments:

Job title

2010-2011

2012-2013

2014

AED, monthly

Abra driver

700

Accountant

3k-10k

3k-15k

3k-20k

Air Hostess - see Cabin Crew

Airline Pilot (Captain)

25k-35k

30k-45k

30k-50k

Airline Pilot (First Officer)

20k-30k

Bank - management

10k-30k

15k-40k

15k-50k

Bank - teller

5k-12k

Bar Manager

5k-15k

5k-25k

Bus driver - Indian school

1,500-2,500

Carpenter

1k-4k

Cashier

1k-5k

Cashier, supermarket

1k-2,500

Cabin Crew

5k-11k

7k-14k

CEO, small company

15k-40k

CEO, large company

50k-150k

CEO, banking sector

100k-150k

CEO construction industry

60k-150k

Cleaner

800-1,300

Construction worker

500-1500

Cook, Chef

1k-10k

Country Head (banking)

130k-170k

Customer Service Agent

3k-10k

Doctor

15k-75k

Driver

1k-2500

Editor, newspaper

10k-75k

Electrician

Engineer

8k-30k

Engineer, Civil

10k-75k

Executive Assistant

15k-25k

Flight Attendant - see Cabin Crew

Front Desk Staff (hotels)

5k-15k

Gardener

500-1500

General Manager (hospitality)

25k-45k

Instructor (tertiary level)

6k-25k

Investment Banker

50k-100k

IT - too vague, wide range

3k-50k+

Kindergarten Supervisor (Indian)

5,000

Kindergarten Supervisor (Western)

12k-20k

Kindergarten Teacher

see Nursery School Teacher entry

Laborer

600-1500

Lawyer

25k-200k

Maid, Nanny²

700-2500

700-3000

Manager, mid-level

5k-30k

Manager, senior

10k-50k

Nurse

2,500-10k

2,500-15k

Nurse - Nursery, Preschool

2,500-5k

Nursery School Director, Manager

10k-20k

Nursery School Teacher

1k-8k

1k-10k

Nursery Teaching Assistant

2k-3k

Office Manager

8k-16k

Office Worker

2k-6k

1500-7k

Personal Assistant (PA)

2k-25k

Pharmacist

5k-8k

6k-9k

Pilot - see Airline Pilot

PRO

Product Officer (banking)

10,000-20,000

Professional¹

5,000-40,000

Project Manager

10,000-50,000

12,000-75,000

Quantity Surveyor (junior)

10,000-14,000

Receptionist

2500-8000

Receptionist, bilingual

10,000-15,000

Reporter, newspaper

10,000-25,000

Research Assistant

8,000-12,000

Restaurant Manager

5,000-15,000

Sales, commercial

5,000-25,000

Sales assistant, shop

1,500-2,500

Sales supervisor, supermarket

1,500-2,500

School Headmaster (Indian School)

6,000-10,000

7,000-15,000

7,000-12,000

School Principal (expensive school)

25,000-40,000

25,000-45,000

Secretary - see Receptionist

Security Guard

1000-2000

Shop Assistant

1000-4000

Taxi Driver

1000-4000

Teacher, Indian school

1,500-5,000

Teacher, Emirati, government school

24,000-34,000³

Teacher, expat, government school

2,000-6,000

Teacher, expat, PPP school Abu Dhabi

5,000-20,000

Teacher, preschool, kindergarten

see Nursery School Teacher entry

Teacher, university

3,000-22,000

5,000-30,000

Teacher, western school

5,000-22,000

Teaching Assistant (TA)

2,000-4,000

Technician, Etisalat

10,000

Technology - too vague, see IT

Telesales and Marketing

3,000-10,000

Waiter, Waitress

1,000-5,000

Window cleaner (Burj Khalifa)

2,200⁴

Professional means a profession for which a higher level qualification is required, e.g. lawyer, architect, engineer, etc. Salary range is for those employed by a company. Professionals who work for themselves can earn between 0 (or less until going bust up) and $lot$ per month (>100k is possible).

Minimum salaries for maids set by the respective governments of the country they come from are: Bangladesh AED 750, India AED 1,100, Indonesia AED 800, Philippines AED 1,400, Sri Lanka AED 850 (figures not confirmed). It's not clear if these minimum salaries are supported by labour law in the UAE so some maids are paid less than the minimum while some earned more. So I guess this sometimes has to do with luck and opportunity available to the applicants at that point in time.

Driving job

(Taxi Driver)

Remuneration: Basic Sal.: 1200AED

Accommodation and transportation

Security Officer

(Security Guards)

Remuneration:

Accommodation and transportation

Executive Cleaner

(Cleaning job)

Remuneration:

Accommodation and transportation