Salary transfer offers: AED 5,000 to under 8,000

No lock-in period and no clawback of cashback already paid — unusual for a UAE salary-transfer offer, and the main thing that distinguishes this one. Cashback is credited monthly to the FAB account within 45 calendar days of the end of the month in which the salary landed. A month in which no qualifying salary arrives simply pays nothing; cashback resumes when salary next arrives, but missed months are never credited retrospectively, so the AED 9,000 maximum assumes twelve consecutive qualifying months. Closing the account before fulfilment forfeits cashback not yet paid. Amounts are rounded down to whole dirhams.

• The headline '20% cashback' is a 12-month total, not a rate. The T&Cs state the actual mechanic: 1.67% cashback on each monthly salary credit, capped at AED 750 per month and AED 9,000 across 12 months.
• Open to new FAB customers, or existing customers with no FAB salary transfer in the preceding 12 months. Minimum monthly salary AED 5,000.
• The salary must be credited to a FAB One, FAB Personal Current or Elite Current account. Savings accounts are explicitly excluded, as are non-AED currency accounts.
• SAVE OR SPEND — either qualifies, and meeting both pays no more. Save: an incremental month-end balance of at least 20% of that month's salary across FAB conventional CASA accounts. Spend: at least 20% of monthly salary on a NEW FAB conventional credit card opened during the campaign.
• No credit card is required if you qualify via the Save route — the marketing copy implies otherwise.
• Cash advances, balance transfers, and annual or joining card fees do not count as qualifying spend.
• The 20% threshold is recalculated monthly against actual salary credited, so a pay change moves the target automatically. Multiple salary credits in one month are aggregated but do not raise the monthly cap.
• Not open to Private Banking customers, SME customers, FAB staff, or customers with delinquent or overdue FAB accounts.

Cashback is processed within 60 days of meeting the three-month qualifying run and credited to the salary account; by our count that is roughly five months after the first salary lands (the terms give no month count). The salary account and Covered Card must be active at payout. The Bank reserves the right to reverse the full salary cashback if the account receives no eligible salary credit for more than three consecutive calendar months within the twelve months following the month the cashback was credited. EI staff are ineligible.

• Offer valid 1 October 2026 to 31 March 2027. Campaign enrolment is required for both new and existing EI customers.
• New-to-Group only: no salary-transfer relationship with the Emirates NBD Group — Emirates NBD *or* Emirates Islamic — in the 6 months before the first salary transfer.
• Three consecutive calendar months of salary credits qualify you; if the amounts differ, the band is computed on the LOWER of the 2nd and 3rd months' salaries.
• Salary must arrive from your employer via the UAE funds-transfer / WPS channels; cash, cheque or personal-account transfers don't count.
• New-to-bank customers must also make a first debit-card transaction and register for EI+ mobile/online banking within 60 days of opening the salary account.
• UAE Nationals earn higher CASA amounts than the table above at the lower bands (AED 200 / 600 / 1,500 / 3,000 by band; AED 6,000 and 10,000 at the top two bands, the same as non-nationals) and higher card rewards at 10,000–49,999 (AED 500 / 750 / 1,000). Our table shows the non-national figures.
• Card component: first new Covered Card only, and only for customers who qualify for the CASA reward. Existing EI Covered Card holders are ineligible for it. Emirati, Skywards Black, Skywards Infinite, Etihad Guest and Amazon Covered Cards are excluded.
• Transferring salary into an e-Savings or Super Savings Skywards account disqualifies the campaign, as does holding an active Personal Finance facility at payout.
• An extra AED 100 is paid for opening a first Alpha Youth Account within 60 days of the first salary credit (not included in the band totals above).
• Not valid with any other EI promotion. EI may disqualify anyone who received an EI salary-enrolment cash reward in the 12 months before payout, which includes customers paid under the June–September 2026 cycle.

The joining bonus is a one-time cash credit, disbursed within 60 days of completing the product bundle (90-day bundle-completion window). DIB may refuse or reverse it for fraud or breach of the campaign terms. Unlike some peers there is no published multi-month salary-stop clawback on the salary-transfer bonus itself — but the bundle's card/finance commitments carry their own terms.

• Open a new salary transfer on an Al Islami 2-in-1 or Al Islami Savings Account (Sharia, Mudaraba-based) and transfer a salary of AED 5,000+.
• New DIB salary customers only — no DIB salary transfer in the previous 6 months; at least 2 salaries must be credited.
• BUNDLE REQUIRED: the salary-transfer bonus is only paid alongside an eligible DIB covered card and/or an eligible finance facility (personal finance ≥ AED 75,000 or auto finance ≥ AED 50,000). It is not a standalone salary-transfer bonus.
• Salary must be credited via the UAE Wage Protection System / Fund Transfer System (cash, cheque or personal-account transfers don't qualify).
• An extra 15% on the bonus for products taken through DIB's 'alt' mobile / online digital channels.

The joining bonus is credited in 12 equal monthly instalments across the first year (Mashreq's page also carries an older FAQ describing a 6-instalment schedule for the pre-August structure). Any month the salary is missed or falls below AED 5,000 forfeits that month's instalment. If no salary is transferred for 2 consecutive months within the 12-month period from the first transfer, ALL previously paid bonus is clawed back by debiting the account.

• Open a Mashreq or Mashreq NEO Current/Savings account and transfer a net salary of at least AED 5,000/month.
• Terms shown apply to accounts whose FIRST salary lands on or after 1 August 2026 (Mashreq's current published table). Earlier joiners are on the previous joining-bonus structure.
• The early-bird component requires the first salary within 90 days of account opening — a late HR switch forfeits that half of the headline.
• Salary must be credited by a UAE-registered employer through recognised salary-transfer channels — remittance, direct transfer, cash or cheque credits do not qualify. A mislabelled transfer narration can void the bonus.
• Bonus is banded on the FIRST salary credited; later pay rises do not re-band it.