Hi!

The HayGroup conducts and publishes a regular Annual Compensation Report for each country in the Gulf (GCC).

This report is normally distributed exclusively to the participating companies. But you can try contacting them and buy a copy of their 2007-2008 Compensation Report which I am sure is available in your country now.

When buying market compensation data, you should understand that the company who conducted the study may require your company to commit to participate in the succeeding year's survey. As such, you will be incurring two (2) expenses: one for the current survey report; and, another for the participation on the next year's survey.

You will also be asked to sign a non-proliferation agreement which will legally tie you and your company to the observance of intellectual property/ copyright laws. In this agreement, you will promise not to copy nor ditribute the same to anyone without their consent.

Hence, you cannot do the things that some people in this forum are doing --- i.e. freely distributing the intellectual property of other individuals/ companies. If you violate this agreement, you and your company can be sued for breach of local and internaitonal IPR/ copyrights laws.

Best wishes.

Ed Llarena, Jr.
Managing Partner
Emilla Consulting
Manila, Philippines
Tel: 00632-787-0423
0063-916-762-7218
(helps improve corporate governance worldwide, esp in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Pacific Region)