The Hotelier Middle East Salary Survey 2010 provides a fascinating insight into the earning potential and job satisfaction of hospitality professionals in the region. Jamie Knights reports

Open to hospitality professionals across the region, 249 people took part in the Hotelier Middle East Salary Survey 2010 during the month of June.

Despite all the doom and gloom of the last year and a half, it was great to see that there were still that many people left in the industry.

All jokes aside, when compared to the inaugural salary survey in 2009 — which took place just as the global economic downturn engulfed the Middle East — the results provide a fascinating and clear depiction of how the tumultuous year has changed sentiment.

THE RESPONDENTS

Once again, there was a large mixture of respondents to the survey, with the majority holding management and sales and marketing roles.

F&B was represented in various roles with the sector providing 38 of total responses.

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Of the 249 respondents that took part in the survey on HotelierMiddleEast.com, the breakdown of the roles was as follows (n=249):
Chef: 22
Food Service: 10
Bar staff: 1
Kitchen porter: 1
Conference & banqueting: 4
Receptionist: 6
Reservations: 4
Housekeeper: 9
Maintenance: 2
Management: 87
Sales and marketing: 24
PR & communications: 14
HR: 17
IT: 5
Finances: 12
Procurement : 7
Head/regional office: 8
Other front of house: 7
Other back of house: 8

The breakdown of level of role is as follows (n=249):
Director: 41
Senior manager: 17
Executive manager: 24
Regional manager: 6
General manager: 40
Manager: 52
Assistant manager: 29
Full-time employee: 38
Part-time employee: 1
Trainee/apprentice: 1

The breakdown of the age of respondents was as follows (n=249):
21-30 years: 21.3%
31-40 years: 41.8%
41-50 years: 27.3%
51-60 years: 8%
60+ years: 1.6%