Anybody travel to Saudi??

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All my DH and i keep hearing is how there is big $$$ to be made over there (like 50K-100K for one year assignments). And to be honest, i don't see ANY other way we are going to pay off all our bills, debt, etc...without some serious money in the future. So i was thinking......maybe we might do it eventually. Of course i dont' know what's going on over there terrorist wise, but there is still people talking about it. Has anybody done this? or know anybody who has done this? Cuz IF we do it, we'll do it TOGETHER (we are both RN's) and we'd take our kids. Then and only then would we do it. I don't know what type of experience we'd need. But it would be worth getting for that kind of bank.

I looked into this a few years ago and the pay was around $100,000 a year, tax free for nurses, however, that has all changed. I knew countless people that had gone over there on 3 year working stints, lived in those compounds and saved lots of money and bought houses outright with the cash they had saved....I have met nurses all around, since I work agency, who have done this and they own their homes outright. HOWEVER, they have since lowered the pay rates drastically.

My brother in law who is an MD just got back from working in Saudi Arabia and was earning $4,000 a month as an Internist and did a 2 year contract with them. He noted that the RNs there, mainly Philippino and Indo/Pak. were trying to migrate to the USA for the higher pay there and possible green card as well, monopolizing on their Saudi experience.

Another thing, you will NOT be allowed to take your kids TO SAUDI ARABIA. You would have to leave them in the U.S., it is for nurses who don't have dependents as far as I have been told by the agencies as well as those who have been there. If you work in ANY country outside the US, you will be allowed to keep up to $70,000 of it without paying any U.S. income tax, according to our laws.

Keep us posted and GOOD LUCK. I hope you find a position that you can at least take your children with you!

Hmmm that's interesting actually. Like i said it'll be a few years, and the only condition is that our kids go, or we don't go. HOWEVER

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