Who earns more? Doctor (say paediatrician) in UK or petroleum engineer in Dubai?

Just wondering how much net pay doctors make after tax compared to engineers such as petroleum engineers in Dubai and other places in UAE that don't have tax so can keep almost all of their gross income.

Why is this being asked?

And it would be the petroleum engineer in Dubai (dad was one in Saudi, and for sure earned a lot).

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As I said, my mind is coming up with weird stuff like this. Just a random question. I am doing Engineering myself so was looking at chemical engineering and came across petroleum engineering as a possible pathway after my degree. Could i ask what university your father went to and if it was difficult getting into petroleum engineering?

But i just found that there aren't taxes in UAE countries (some) so was just wanting to know for my own knowledge if the tax really did pay a significant part. But thanks a lot for answering good sir.

He went to the best Nigerian university (at the time) for his bachelors, then Imperial for his masters. Got a first, highest in his year. For him, it was pretty easy, he told me he had around 5-6 job offers or so after university. Although realistically, the university you go to doesn't matter that much in oil&gas - though there are obviously some degree programmes with a better rep than others.

Ah, no worries. Fwiw, we moved around with him and the company (Saudi Aramco?) covered private international school fees, free flights to whatever destination during the summer holidays and a housing stipend. So pretty good, I think a lot of companies that ship people out on expat packages are nice like that.

As for pay, back then he was around mid-career, so probably equivalent to ~£65-70k or so.


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Free travel??? That is awesome! Id love to travel like that. But i guess i am going to stick to chemical engineering as a job just because i haven't done much research in petroleum engineering. Maybe in the future when i know more about it, who knows anything could happen. And as for the pay, don't doctors in uk usually earn around £100k - 150k?

Free travel??? That is awesome! Id love to travel like that. But i guess i am going to stick to chemical engineering as a job just because i haven't done much research in petroleum engineering. Maybe in the future when i know more about it, who knows anything could happen. And as for the pay, don't doctors in uk usually earn around £100k - 150k?

Just wondering how much net pay doctors make after tax compared to engineers such as petroleum engineers in Dubai and other places in UAE that don't have tax so can keep almost all of their gross income.

He went to the best Nigerian university (at the time) for his bachelors, then Imperial for his masters. Got a first, highest in his year. For him, it was pretty easy, he told me he had around 5-6 job offers or so after university. Although realistically, the university you go to doesn't matter that much in oil&gas - though there are obviously some degree programmes with a better rep than others.

Ah, no worries. Fwiw, we moved around with him and the company (Saudi Aramco?) covered private international school fees, free flights to whatever destination during the summer holidays and a housing stipend. So pretty good, I think a lot of companies that ship people out on expat packages are nice like that.

As for pay, back then he was around mid-career, so probably equivalent to ~£65-70k or so.


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You don't have to answer if you feel that it's too personal but would the Nigerian university happen to be the University of Ibadan?

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Nah, you can look up the pay scales. It takes 20 years of service as a consultant (i.e. 30-35+ years total experience) to reach £100k unless they get involved with private practice or are a GP partner for several practices. Starting consultants are ~£70k and GPs slightly lower.

My dad's highest pay was £140k after 15-20 years or so in the industry. But that was going into management.


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30-35 year experience including med school? I thought for cardiologists for example, they could finish training as a consultant by the age of say 32ish and then go straight for jobs starting at £70k and with a few years of experience (say 5/6) they could start earning anything up to 120k or in some cases more. I guess it also depends, as you said, on the percentage that actually do private work as well i guess. But thats still like 20-25 years (including med school) rather than 30-35 years. Do correct me if I'm wrong though.

Me personally, Im going to Sheffield to do my chemical engineering course, picking it over medicine for the better work life balance, and who knows where i could end up if i get a first? But yeah I guess i should start looking up petroleum engineering then

No, just experience. The £100k bracket is only for very senior consultants, no one is going to be hitting £120k after only 5-6 yrs of being a consultant unless they're living in a country with higher physician pay or are doing private practice. A completely NHS consultant would only touch £100k after roughly 20 years of experience as a consultant.

If you really want, I would recommend markets focused role (be that risk, trading, sales w/ever) in finance, probably the best work-life balance to compensation ratio you can get. Otherwise yeah, oil and gas is pretty good - most chem eng grads go into a process engineering sort of role.

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Do you mean in the field of engineering or just move into finance once my degree is over?

Do you mean in the field of engineering or just move into finance once my degree is over?

As in apply to finance internships.

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You can do pretty much every finance job with an engineering degree. Trading is probably where you can make the most money wiht the least hours. Very risky work though and no job security.

Just wondering how much net pay doctors make after tax compared to engineers such as petroleum engineers in Dubai and other places in UAE that don't have tax so can keep almost all of their gross income.