Kuwait City - Post Report Question and Answers
What types of jobs do most expatriate spouses/partners have? Locally based or telecommuting? Full-time or part-time? Can you comment on local salary scales?
Telecommuting is easy since there are no local income taxes; U.S. companies don't have to jump through a lot of hoops to employ expat spouses. I don't know about working on the local economy, but jobs are available at the embassy. - May 2023
There are multiple EFM employment opportunities within the mission. I do not know much about work outside the mission. - May 2023
There are some limited job opportunities within the Embassy, and also some school jobs. Many jobs on the local economy as one person stated, if you want to earn local pay (but my understanding means very little earned). - Apr 2022
The U.S. Embassy has more jobs available that partners who choose to work outside the home. - Mar 2022
There are jobs available and its fairly easy to find them-part or full time. Salaries are fairly normal for Americans and other westerners. The bureaucratic process here is painful, however, so it takes time to obtain official permission to work. - May 2017
The US mission has a bilateral work agreement with Kuwait. Some spouses have found good jobs in banking, teaching, publishing, health care (PT and mental health) and education. Others have had more difficulty, for example, nurses. Nursing positions are available, but the prevailing wage is extremely low. - Mar 2017
Teaching, nursing and a few other positions are pretty numerous. - Mar 2015
A few in the American and British consulate and schools. For trailing spouses it's much easier if they have either Arabic or a academic specialty at BS level or above. Pretty hard to compete at menial with hard-working Egyptians, Sudanese, or Lebanese who know the language better or Indians or Phillipinos who will work for less. - Dec 2013
Yes. - May 2013
Many spouses work in embassy jobs. I don't know of anyone working on the economy whose spouse works at the embassy. - Feb 2013
Teaching, tutoring. Not a lot else. - May 2012
There is tons of government run around if you want to start your own private business, but there are plenty of teaching jobs available for qualified individuals. I'm not familiar with other jobs outside of the embassy. - May 2012
There are a lot of jobs for teachers and engineers who work in oil. - Jan 2012
Some. If you have a degree in anything, you can teach. (I hear) - Jul 2010
Yes. And the pay is very nice with no taxes taken out. - Jul 2010
Yes. There are many, many jobs available on the economy here. - Jun 2008
