Dubai cost of living · Moving calculator

Moving to Dubai? See what you would keep

Your salary after tax where you live now, the same salary in Dubai, and what is left after the cost of living.

Estimate, not tax advice. Tax figures come from official sources for the tax year shown and cover salary income only. Check your own case before you decide.

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Where you live now

Country where you pay tax

Gross salary per year

Household

Single Couple, one income

Dependent children

What you spend per month today (optional)

Your salary in Dubai

The same gross salary, converted to AED I have a figure for Dubai

Monthly cost of living in Dubai

In AED per month. Change every line to match your plans; empty lines are left out and listed as missing.

Rent

AED

Data coming soon — enter your own figure.

School fees

AED

All children together, per month (yearly fees ÷ 12).

See fees by school; KHDA data for 2024–25.

Groceries

AED

Utilities (electricity, water, cooling, internet)

AED

Enter your own figure.

Transport

AED

Enter your own figure.

Health insurance

AED

Only what you would pay yourself, for example for your family. Enter your own figure.

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How this calculator works

Home country: income tax and employee social contributions for a resident employee with salary income only, for the tax year shown, from the tax agency or social-security agency of each country.
Dubai: no personal income tax and no social contributions for expatriate employees, so take-home pay equals gross salary.
Currencies are converted at a fixed rate published by the Central Bank of the UAE on the date shown; the rate does not move while you use the page.
The cost-of-living lines are yours to fill. A default appears only where we have our own data, and it is marked as an estimate with its source.
A country appears only when every figure in its calculation could be verified on an official source. Unknown is shown as unknown, never as zero.