Is it a good idea to switch from a product manager role in India to Dubai? I’m currently getting paid 36LPA as a PM2 in one of Fintech Unicorns in India. Have about 4years of PMing experience. Please suggest, also as I’m doing research for this topic i’ll put up all my research on this thread.
Was in a similar situation a few years ago.
Heres my notes, you make a call as you wish
Dubai is a homogenous market and thus has limited complexity, data sets and customer behaviour. Long term Indian market experience, with its hetrogenity, data sets and the sheer size is much more valuable
Dubai is not US. Later if you want to crack big roles in India you wont be as hot as an Indian PM in California now wanting to get back to India. Dubai has different salary for different race/color/nationality. Its an ugly side no one talks about
Your salary is correlated with VC investments in your industry and country. India certainly will have more investments than Dubai for atleast next 5 years
Your Dubai Salary might be good but to enjoy same lifestyle as India- Cook, Maid, Car, Home rental at Proxomity to work etc you will shell out 10-15K AED. Add 5K if you have a Kid. Now think where does this land
Hey, work in UAE. All the points of MrGanfalf is super valid.
You should target AED 25+ per month, that will make life very comfortable. Caveat is UAE offers a lot for good lifestyle so creep is very easy, any salary can seem low! Eg. my in hand component in india was 2.2L and I just couldn’t spend it!
Rents are super high so more you negotiate the better.
If you live with a friend - it can become very comfortable to live. If alone - 12K for india level lifestyle.
Challenges :
Cracking role - shallow market, few roles - random applicant flooding market making shortlisting insanely hard. Check Reddit!
Lack of growth - no cutting edge work, although you can see it a place to achieve FIRE!
Increments - hope you know that india level hikes don’t happen ANYWHERE. Just a word of caution.
40K-50K would be extremely tough!
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