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the way they measure it is based on your expenditure.
if you're a western expat, you're more likely to earn more at home and spend more within the country, so they pay you more. The country needs professionals and the western expats fill that void that the locals are having difficulty filling.
asian staff will send 90% of the income back home the very next day that their salaries arrive in their account, so its not spent within the country. the banks despise it, but this is the norm the day after pay day.
highthief - not sure if you've been following the news, but dubai's in big debt problems at the moment. all the projects were built on loans and not petro-dollars. the money seems to be flowing from Abu Dhabi rather than Dubai lately.
cimarron - ill be there at the HR office at 8am. ill ask them to put me in a labour camp with 10 other hormonal guys while im at it.
nomcat - im a Quantity Surveyor, so im familiar with all the number crunching.
if you calculate the base salary, expenses, health insurance, services, lodging etc - you end up at around $5 USD cost to the company. sure its not a lot, but when you take the sheer number of labourers employed, 1 dirham (about 25c USD) extra person per hour will lead a few million dirhams added to the base yearly cost. in this market with everyone trying to cut their costs to stay competitive, its good business sense.
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