Rewards Rates
Key Cardholder Benefits
- You'll receive complimentary Emirates Skywards Silver status the first year of being a Emirates Skywards Rewards Mastercard member. After that, you'll need to spend $20,000 or more on the card to maintain Silver each cardmembership year.
- When you use the Emirates Skywards Rewards Mastercard to buy or gift Skywards Miles, you'll receive a 25% discount.
Annual Fees
The Emirates Skywards Rewards World Elite Mastercard has an annual fee of $99.
Emirates Miles Calculator
Calculate how many Skywards Miles you can earn with the Emirates Skywards Rewards Mastercard based on spend and the cash value of those miles. Results can be compared side by side any U.S. credit card featured on the site.
Any spend entered into the primary card column (the first column) will carry over to all credit card calculators on the site, so there's no need to re-enter spend when viewing other credit cards.
Other Ways To Earn
Emirates is a direct transfer partner of all major U.S. credit card rewards programs. This means you can use credit cards from Chase, AMEX, Citi, and Capital One to earn tens of thousands of miles via intro bonuses and everyday spending. This far exceeds what you'll earn with Emirates' own co-branded credit cards.
Here are the list of partners that allow you to transfer rewards to your Emirates Skywards account:
Earning Rate Comparison
Want to know how the Emirates Skywards Premium World Elite Mastercard's earning rates stacks up against other Emirates and partner credit cards? The table below lists out the earning rates per $1 spent for all credit card partners so you can see where it stands.
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Emirates Skywards miles calculators
Check out all of our Emirates Skywards miles calculators and calculate everything from how many miles you can earn with credit cards to the cash value of your miles based on redemption!
These calculators and guides are all about maximizing your spend and earning the most Emirates miles per dollar spent.
Use our Emirates credit card calculators to estimate how many miles you can earn and the cash value of the card based on the spend amounts you enter, how much you value benefits, and annual fees.
Our calculators allow you to compare up to two additional credit cards side by side based on same or different spend. Plus, all spend amounts you enter in the Primary card's column rolls over to all credit card rewards calculators on the site!
Reminder: Don't forget that you can also transfer credit card points from partners to Emirates Skywards. This adds over 20 additional credit cards you can use to earn miles!
Want to earn more Skywards miles? With Emirates being a direct transfer partner of all major U.S. credit card rewards programs, there's no shortage of earning miles with transfer partners!



Want to know how much your miles are worth when used towards travel and other redemptions? Check out our Emirates miles value calculators.