dry_kill

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well got a buddy that left to iraq last wednesday to be a "cafeteria lady" lol, said all he has to do is scrub pots and pans, clean floors, fill salt shakers, and put out silverware. said he will be there for a year and he will get $100k for the year, tax free.

I was wondering if anybody else has worked over there in iraq. seems like easy money, but of course your having to risk your life. Anybody with friends or family or personal experience over there please chime in, really thinking about going. thanks fellas

sway99bird

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My brother worked for halliburton a few years ago driving a truck he said the same thing but didn't stay a full year but I don't think they would pay him that much for a "cafeteria lady"

v8

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My brother was there for 6 years, whrs foreman and I think he just made 15 an hour tax free of course plus bonuses, if you've never been away from home its an experience, no beer, your in a camp, may have to room with 4 other men etc.

The way the job scene is nowadays might be worth going for a 4month term.

oh yea to be tax free I think you have to stay out of the USA for 335days a year, I could be wrong.

Good luck.

madmike9396

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YEAH i have a friend there right now he works on generators. im trying 2 get a job with him

jmilz28

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Actually mom was there 3 years ago, and is back now. The pay is not high for nothing. It's MUCH better now, but it's not called combat pay for nothing. PM me if you really want details.

lets_fly

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join the corps charly

purple_lean

Its not tax free anymore. I get hit for FICA,SS, Medicare and Medcaid. And now I am getting hit for federal income tax over a certian $ amount which i clear every month.

Your "lunch lady" homie will be lucky if he actually nets 60k for the year. you take 3 vacations a year and it really kicks your dough in the ***. He will probably gross 75k.

99T/A

Not sure if it has changed or not. I was there in 2006 as a Diesel Mechanic for KBR (Halliburton). In order to be tax free you had to be off of U.S. soil for 330 days out of a consecutive 365. There were tricks to it though. You signed a 12 month contract to go over there. If you stayed 18 months that did not mean you had to pay taxes on the last six months you were there since you didn't stay another full year. But you had to be careful how you scheduled your R&R's. I.E. if you did your 12 months and then stayed an additional 6 months, they would look at your last day and go back 365 days. If you were smart enough on planning your vacations you could fall in the 330 day rule for the first 12 months. While at the same time you only stayed an additional 6 months, when they went back 365 days you were also within the 330 day rule so you were tax free for the last 6 moths as well.

Also when I was there the U.S. law on tax exempt money was anything UP TO $80,000 per year. I went as a supervisor and wound up making $118,000 my first year, but only had to pay taxes on $38,000 of it. Now you could have them withhold Federal Income Tax if you wanted that way if you didn't stay you weren't in a bind trying to get the money to pay in because you had already paid in, but you didn't have to pay it in on your checks. I had them withhold it from mine just incase and when I came home and filed I wound up getting a little over $20,000 back since I had them withhold the max they could withhold on each check.

They might have changed some stuff but I am not positive if they did or not.

99T/A

When I was there the absolute lowest pay for Halliburton no matter what the job was, was a $2,583 base pay. After your overseas uplift and hazard pay a bring home check after taxes on a 4 week month was $6,318.76, and on a 5 week month was $7,898.00 .

tigertank

99 ta has it i went iverseas with dyncorp and a few other PMC and it has to do with consec days away from us soil...... and mac amount of money u make check with a company that goes overseas they will help

aggiez28

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i have just been withthe military. i did talk to the guy that supervised the forign workers cleaning the crappers and i think he said he made 80k tax free. it was easy work and the danger was minimal since he stayed on alasad. this was in 2005