The2016 Bayt.com Middle East and North Africa Salary Survey looks at the current situation of salaries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The report measures the current levels of satisfaction with pay raises, bonuses and over-time pay. It also analyses the composition of salary packages and benefits across the MENA, as well as the propensity of MENA professionals to save and repatriate money.
Key findings:
Only a small proportion of respondents (4%) claim to have ‘high’ levels of satisfaction with their current salary across the MENA region.
The largest proportion of those surveyed (42%) did not receive a pay increase in2015, with respondents from Morocco (56%) and Algeria (57%) most likely to make this claim.
When it comes to savings, over one-third of respondents (35%) say they are not able to save anything from their monthly salary.
Oil, gas and petrochemicals, banking/ finance and airline/ aviation topped the list of the highest paying industries across the MENA region.
More than half of those surveyed (53%) plan to look for a better job in the same industry;31% will look for a better job in a different industry; and25% will look for a better job elsewhere in the region.
Data for the2016 Bayt.com Middle East and North Africa Salary Survey was collected online from April1st to April15th2016. Results are based on a sample of8,158 respondents from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia.
