The study collected data on more than 500 organisations and businesses across the Middle East, including of 177 in the UAE.
The figure shows that companies across the UAE are being less generous with their budgets than in previous years – forecasts for salary increases made in 2014 and 2013 were 5.1 per cent and 5 per cent respectively.
Robert Richter, Compensation Survey Manager at Aon Hewitt Middle East, said that employees shouldn’t see the figure as a “cause for concern”.
“It is normal procedure for companies to rethink their salary projections on an annual basis,” he says.
“Final budgets will be determined by HR and the management team of a company and the numbers we receive are the projections made by HR only.”
But not all UAE employees are convinced that a pay rise is on its way.
Issam H, 28, from Jordan, who works for an IT company in Abu Dhabi, said: “If the trends are pointing towards s
alary increases for all then great, but I won’t be holding my breath.”
Dubai-based data analyst Wajda Nasser added that her company was “more likely to decrease my salary.”
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