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Dear Expats,

I am currently based in Paris. I was offered a week ago a posiition to join the office based in Saudi Arabia (Riyadh) as a technical pre sales manager.
Today, I got the call from the local manager of the Saudi office. We talked for almost an hour.


Concerning the package.
it will consists on a basic salary + allowance for housing+ allowance for transportation and insurance. He was asking me what is my expectation for the basic salary?
He told me that for allowance for housing, I should expect (~70k SR), and for transportation allowance , I should expect something between (2000-4000 SR).


I am really worried about not being able to define the correct value of my salary? I donÂ’t wanna offend them by asking too much and also, asking too low neither).

To be sincere, I m confused.

So, please help me defining my basic salary expectations.

I was going to ask for 25000 SR. Is that too much or itÂ’s reasonable in my case, since I need to absorb those extra charges of having my wife still living in France and keeping my expensive apartment in downtown of Paris and also, because keeping paying her tuition charges and insurance charges. In addition, myself will be calling her and travelling back to France more often!!!


Please help me.
I am really confused and they are asking me to send them by the end of the day,  my basic salary expectation and all other issues.