Bayt.com, a leading job site in the region, has announced the launch of its innovative salary search engine, the first comprehensive pan-regional online salary calculator in the Middle East North Africa region.

The highly innovative 'Salary Search' application allows users to find and anonymously share salary details about specific jobs for specific employers or companies across the region.

Bayt.com’s Salary Search helps job-seekers today find their way through a maze of offers and information to pinpoint the jobs that offer the best possible salary at their preferred location and industry. Armed with this knowledge employees can not only seek the best career options for themselves, they can also negotiate better and understand the compensation trajectories to expect within a particular company or industry.

Employers can similarly use the Bayt.com Salary Search tool to effectively gauge prevalent salary conditions for particular roles, career levels and sectors making for a more fair, balanced and competitive marketplace, said a top official.

“Bayt.com has been extremely successful at helping job-seekers find new employment across the Mena. However, a recent poll we conducted showed that 66.4 per cent of employees in the region were unhappy with their salary, 53 per cent were not sure salary structures in their organisations were transparent and 90 per cent wished they had a source of data to benchmark salaries in the region," commented Rabea Ataya, CEO of Bayt.com.

"The salary search tool will be invaluable for both employees and employers. By accessing this fresh and vital salary information, both parties are empowered with a clearer and more balanced understanding of prevalent salary levels in the marketplace as well as compensation trends across industries, roles and sectors,” he added.

The Bayt.com Salary Search is a simple and user-friendly tool. The average salary for top job titles is visible for free to all visitors of the site. However, in order to see salary details registered users have to post their salary. All posts are completely anonymous. Bayt.com Salary Search then offers three types of Salary search for registered users.

The Basic Salary Search is free of charge and allows users to browse average salaries for popular jobs and different occupation in the Middle East and other countries.

The Power Salary Search, displays the salary details of all relevant job titles allowing users to search by salary and see the name of the companies offering the desired salaries.

The Premium Salary Search, provides innovate ground-breaking search filtering criteria and other detailed salary data such as breakdowns by companies and industries.

With Premium Salary Search users can access more than six filtering criteria to analyze and compare entire pay structures against the market. They can source details regarding company, industry and size as well as candidates’ years of experience and nationality.

Premium Salary Search equips employees and employers alike to base their planning, negotiation, recruitment and career decisions based on actual real-time data.

In a recent Salary Search poll, from June 4 to July 7, employees in the region were asked if they felt they were paid fairly. The poll gathered answers from all over the Middle East region with overall 16 per cent responding positively, while 17 per cent said they were unsure and 66 per cent said they were not paid fairly.

In the UAE, 12 per cent said they were happy with their pay, 15 per cent were unsure and 73 per cent were unhappy. Elsewhere in the GCC, in Saudi, Kuwait and Qatar, 14 per cent, 12 per cent and 9 per cent respectively said they were paid enough, while 14per cent, 8 per cent and 16 per cent said they were unsure and 71 per cent, 80 per cent and 75 per cent said they were not paid enough.-TradeArabia News Service