What does Dubai cost a family? Work it out yourself.
An Excel file built on market benchmarks. You enter family size, area, school and car; the rest calculates itself: monthly cost, annual cost, one-off cost and the net income you need to carry it. As a range, in AED and euro.
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What the file calculates
Seven cost blocks, each with Dubai benchmarks behind it. You fill in the yellow fields; everything else is a formula.
- Housing: annual rent by community and apartment size, converted to a monthly figure, including the charges that come on top in Dubai.
- School: fees per child by curriculum, plus registration, books and transport.
- Groceries and eating out: by household size and lifestyle, from local to international.
- Car: purchase, lease or finance, with fuel, insurance, Salik tolls and parking.
- Health insurance: mandatory in the Emirates, by plan tier and person.
- Household and lifestyle: nanny or help, leisure, flights home.
- Savings, and the net income that follows from it — at 0 % income tax that is also the gross.
These are benchmarks, not quotes. Rents and school fees move with location, intake year and negotiation. The file does not replace a conversation, but it shows you the order of magnitude before you have one.
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