A one-time settling in allowance is offered to assist newly hired employees with the unexpected expenses of relocating for work. Single employees receive 60% of one month base salary, married employees get one month base salary.
For the 401k the company matches up to 9% of your contribution and you can contibute up to 49% of your salary to it, up to the US limit of 53k a year total. They have the Roth option as well so you can do pretax or postax Roth which is new as of a couple years ago. After 20 years and say 15 % your own plus 9% company match and you are looking at approximately another 1-1.3 million dollars.
Saudi Aramco hire female and male nurses to work at their hospital in Dhahran. Your pay will depend on where you come from and the speciality in which you work will also depend on this to some extent. Us nurses have the highest pay scale, then the Brits. Not exactly fair but thats KSA for you. The hospital at Dharan is pretty nice and looks after locals and expats. Its a fairly large hospital and you can search for info on it by googling Aramco Hospital Dhahran and also by looing at the Aramco website. Nurses live on the compound and its huge. To give you some idea, it has a 27 hole golf course in the middle of it! Its pretty safe there and to get onto the compound, there are security checkpoints. Your housing will, again, depend on your pay grade but would probably be an apartment shared with other same sex nurses. You can drive on the compound but not off as a female and you can't drive off with a male who isn't a relative either. Taxis are ok as long as you are in the back seat! THe compound has shops, gyms, restaurants, etc... As for the nursing, I haven't worked there (though I lived on the compund for a while and my Dad was there for 20 years) but know many who have. Its like anywhere, some loved it, some hated it but they all earnt ALOT of money.
In accordance with the Saudi Labor Law, Saudi Aramco offers severance pay to employees who leave after two or more years of satisfactory service. This award is based on the length of continuous service and final pay (including base salary, standard overbase, and benefits supplement) and can be substantial. For instance, an employee with 10 years of service would receive a severance of around 7.5 times their monthly final pay.
Your chances of making the full benefit retirement period are very low, everyone knows that, and a large percentage exit at 5 years when they pension vest. With zero development and zero opportunity to move to any other job around the company the pension vest date is the only thing that keeps them there beyond the first couple of years.A short term financial shot in the arm and salary premium is pretty much the best that can be expected. For that you get a house in a segregated community where you are isolated from the outside (but where every Saudi employee and/or relative or family member can freely roam on weekends) and a decent school for the children. The medical care is third-world level and if something happens to you or a member of your family the chances of successful acute care are very low.In my view the money is not worth the segregation and toxic, unhealthy work environment that you have to put up with every day. Be careful with reading these reviews because the company actively has people inputting glowing reviews (easily spotted by the broken English) to keep the ratings up. The company expatriate website is blocked from the company home internet (you will NOT get good information there) and the recruiters in Houston are paid well to say anything and promise anything to get you there.
When you join Aramco, as well as enjoying a highly competitive salary, you can also look forward to a comprehensive benefits package. Below you'll find a brief overview of what you can expect. Full terms and specifics will be given to you as part of your formal job offer.
Luke Vargas: The US deepens military ties with Australia in an effort to counter China. Plus a new New York City law is forcing employers to share salary ranges on job listings. And we'll crunch the numbers on the journals final poll before next week's US midterms.
Luke Vargas: Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia's National Oil Company, Aramco, also released earnings today, posting a 39% jump in quarterly profit. High oil prices are helping the kingdom to finance an ambitious economic transformation plan at home, and expand its diplomatic influence in the region.Japanese car maker Toyota has trimmed its full year production plan by half a million vehicles, saying it still can't get its hands on enough semiconductors, despite signs of excess supply elsewhere in the chip business. Toyota today reported a 31% drop in quarterly net profit from a year earlier, citing higher materials costs, despite the positive effects of a weaker yen.In other news, today it is election day in Israel, while on the corporate earnings front drug makers, Pfizer and Eli Lilly, as well as Uber, Airbnb, and chip maker AMD are among the companies reporting quarterly results today.Starting today, employers in New York City will be required to include a pay range on nearly all job listings. A number of major employers have proactively begun to post salary ranges, while others are still getting a handle on the law, and say they're preparing managers for potentially contentious conversations with existing employees. Wall Street Journal workplace reporter Chip Cutter has been tracking how businesses are reacting to the law and its potential ripple effects. And he joins us now with the very latest. Hey Chip.
Chip Cutter: Well, this law is going to require New York employers with four or more workers to start including minimum and maximum salary ranges on nearly all job postings, both for external job postings, but also internal promotions or transfer opportunities. And so this could have a pretty dramatic effect. It gives job seekers much more information about what a role pays, but it could also give existing employees a better sense for what the pay band is in their existing position. So a lot of HR executives and others think this is likely to result in employees going to their managers asking, "Why am I not at the top of that range?" You could see those conversations becoming contentious. That's why many companies are trying to prep bosses for those realities.
Chip Cutter: Well, New York City is looking to close gender pay gaps and other disparities. And lawmakers have said that providing more information will create a more efficient market. But it could really have national implications. So even if a company isn't based in New York, if they're posting a remote position that could conceivably be done from the city, they would need to include a salary range.And this also comes amid a wave of similar legislation. Salary transparency laws are taking effect in Washington State and California the start of next year. They've already taken place in Colorado. And so a lot of companies are looking at this landscape and saying maybe it makes more sense to just start listing pay everywhere.
Luke Vargas: And finally, Chip, I know it's early days for this law, but you've seen some of the disclosures companies are making. How broad are these salary ranges that companies are posting? Are they specific enough to be useful?
Chip Cutter: That's one of the big questions here. How broad do these ranges get? So the New York City law requires the companies post a good faith salary range. That can be up for interpretation, and so we're seeing some companies post really broad ranges, others are giving pretty narrow ones, and I think it'll just be interesting to see how that plays out.
Aaron Zitner: Yeah, we ask voters in the survey how motivated they are to vote, and to rate themselves on a scale of one to 10. And when you look at who are the most motivated and most engaged voters, the tens, all the democratic constituencies are weaker than Republican constituencies. Republicans as a group, 88% of them rate themselves a 10 on enthusiasm to vote. But Black voters, Latino voters, voters under age 35, the youngest set of voters, they're all in the 60s. So Democrats and their constituencies just seem less engaged and less motivated than Republicans right now.
By most measures, Saudi Arabia is more reliant on oil income than ever before. The Kingdom's GDP continues to move in tandem with commodity prices, while hydrocarbon rents constitutes more than 70% of government revenue. Though the Kingdom has relatively low extraction costs, ever higher global oil prices are necessary to balance state budgets (currently upwards of $95/barrel). This is due to the high level of rent distribution and social spending including subsidies and sinecures . As an example of the largesse that is frequently associated with 'rentier states' King Salman distributed two month salary bonuses to Saudis after his ascension to the throne in late 2014.
Is this generous rentier state social contract in the process of being renegotiated? Though the Kingdom has foregone more than $86 billion in lost income over the last year due to its 'Walmart strategy', low oil prices have presented the rare opportunity to scale back subsidies and gain control over runaway state finances. Much IMF ink has been spilt over such subsidies. Saudi Arabia has long been associated with fossil fuel waste and thus high expenditure: petrol is sold cheaply and electricity is practically free at 1 cent per kilowatt hour. Overuse and market distortions have seen domestic consumption increase 7% per year, outstripping population growth. State expenditure has climbed post-Arab Spring, inclusive of a 50% increase in spending over the last five years, owing to boosts in the minimum wage, unemployment benefits and generous financial packages distributed to quell protests.
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