Average monthly pay by sector, region and occupation, split by nationality and sex, from the official sources.
«Sector» is what the employer does, such as banking or hospitals; «occupation» is the work itself. These are arithmetic averages, which the highest salaries pull upward, so the median is usually lower.
Overview · Q2 2026
Average Saudi wage11,424 riyals▲ 3.53% on the same quarter a year earlier
Average wage, Saudi men12,104 riyals▲ 3.50% on the same quarter a year earlier
Average wage, Saudi women9,249 riyals▲ 1.55% on the same quarter a year earlier
Average wage, non-Saudis4,090 riyals▲ 3.99% on the same quarter a year earlier
Covers the public and private sectors. Estimated from the labour force survey sample, GASTAT.
Average monthly wage for Saudis since 2017
11,424.0riyalsQ2 2026
9,00010,00011,00012,000
Q1 2017Q2 2026
The labour market from social insurance records
Workers registered with social insurance, most of them in the private sector. Actual records rather than a sample, updated every quarter.
Saudi share of the public sector · Q2 202681%
Saudi share of the private sector · Q2 202619%
Moves from the private sector to the public one · 202549%of all moves between the two sectors
Moves from the public sector to the private one · 202551%of all moves between the two sectors
Average pension, women · 202510,717 riyalsafter 25 years of service on average
Average pension, men · 202512,273 riyalsafter 29 years of service on average
Every insured worker by wage band, Saudi and non-Saudi
500 – 500011,375,791 (82%)
5001 – 99991,191,531 (9%)
10000 – 19999816,948 (6%)
20000 – 29999293,518 (2%)
30000 – 39999119,151 (1%)
>= 40000150,254 (1%)
Social insurance · Q1 2026. 77% of the insured are non-Saudi, so their pay dominates this distribution. The wage here is the one contributions are calculated on — basic salary and housing allowance only — so actual pay is usually higher.
Wage growth by age over one quarter
15 – 19+1.4%
20 – 24+5.2%
25 – 29-1.9%
30 – 34-0.1%
35 – 39+1.0%
40 – 44+0.8%
45 – 49+0.8%
50 – 54+3.7%
55 – 59-2.9%
60 – 64-0.0%
65 – 69+1.5%
70 – 74-1.0%
75 – 79-0.6%
80 – 84-0.2%
>= 85-1.1%
Social insurance · Q2 2026.
New insured workers by region
Riyadh Region311,323 (64%)
Makkah Region57,280 (12%)
Eastern Province50,934 (10%)
Al-Qassim Region14,408 (3%)
Al-Madinah Region11,953 (2%)
Aseer Region10,646 (2%)
Najran Region7,041 (1%)
Hail Region6,458 (1%)
Jazan Region5,584 (1%)
Tabuk Region4,820 (1%)
Al-Jouf Region3,998 (1%)
Northern Borders Region1,693 (0%)
Al-Baha Region1,127 (0%)
Social insurance · Q2 2026.
Insured workers by region
Riyadh Region7,119,222 (51%)
Eastern Province2,410,917 (17%)
Makkah Region2,256,146 (16%)
Al-Qassim Region461,507 (3%)
Al-Madinah Region426,834 (3%)
Aseer Region377,742 (3%)
Najran Region209,968 (2%)
Jazan Region193,794 (1%)
Hail Region182,050 (1%)
Tabuk Region162,817 (1%)
Al-Jouf Region80,397 (1%)
Northern Borders Region60,057 (0%)
Al-Baha Region43,980 (0%)
Social insurance · Q2 2026.
The activities with the most workers
Construction3,348,143 (30%)
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles1,803,668 (16%)
Administrative and support service activities1,526,128 (14%)
Manufacturing1,489,454 (13%)
Transportation and storage835,816 (8%)
Accommodation and food service activities706,727 (6%)
Human health and social work activities483,633 (4%)
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security304,611 (3%)
Professional, scientific and technical activities300,645 (3%)
Other service activities299,020 (3%)
Social insurance · Q2 2026.
Growth in insured workers over a year, by region
Riyadh Region+16.3%
Najran Region+12.2%
Hail Region+7.0%
Al-Jouf Region+6.3%
Tabuk Region+5.4%
Eastern Province+5.3%
Al-Qassim Region+4.0%
Al-Madinah Region+3.8%
Aseer Region+3.5%
Makkah Region+2.8%
Jazan Region+1.9%
Northern Borders Region+1.2%
Al-Baha Region-2.1%
Social insurance · 2025.
Active enterprises by size
Micro1,628,757 (89%)
Small171,834 (9%)
Medium22,394 (1%)
Large4,724 (0%)
Social insurance · Q2 2026.
Contributors by Contract Type
Full time13,498,155 (99%)
Woman working remotely127,439 (1%)
Part time22,301 (0%)
Social insurance · 2025.
The activities with the highest average pay
Financial and insurance activities
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
Mining and quarrying
Information and communication
Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
Professional, scientific and technical activities
Human health and social work activities
Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods- and services-producing activities of households for own use
Real estate activities
Social insurance · 2025. A ranking only, with no amounts.
يشمل الحكومي والخاص، السعوديين وغير السعوديين. تقدير من عينة مسح القوى العاملة، الهيئة العامة للإحصاء · الربع الثاني من 2026. الفئات فوق 60 سنة قليلة العدد في عينة المسح، فأرقامها أقل دقة وتُقرأ بحذر.
Pay by education
Education
Men (SAR)
Women (SAR)
No qualification
Early childhood education
Primary
Intermediate (general or vocational)
Secondary (general or vocational)
Associate diploma
Intermediate diploma
Bachelor's or equivalent
Master's or equivalent
Doctorate
يشمل الحكومي والخاص، السعوديين وغير السعوديين. تقدير من عينة مسح القوى العاملة، الهيئة العامة للإحصاء · الربع الثاني من 2026.
Workers by main occupation group
Workers currently insured, by main occupation group, with the most common age band and region in each one.
Occupation
Workers
Most common age
Most common region
Total
12,871,615
25–29
Total
Elementary occupations
5,340,129
25–29
Total
Professionals
1,751,170
30–34
Total
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
1,302,197
35–39
Total
Craft and related trades workers
1,284,312
35–39
Total
Technicians and associate professionals
1,131,685
35–39
Total
Service and sales workers
947,190
25–29
Total
Clerical support workers
633,258
30–34
Total
Managers
401,869
35–39
Total
Other occupations
48,335
30–34
Total
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
31,470
40–44
Total
الإحصاءات السجلية لسوق العمل (الهيئة العامة للإحصاء من سجلات التأمينات الاجتماعية) · الربع الثاني من 2025. من يعمل في أكثر من وظيفة قد يُحسب أكثر من مرة.
Private sector only. Saudi Central Bank · 2022, the newest year published at this level of detail.
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Treat the result as indicative: the agencies publish average pay by education in one table, by age in another, and by sector, region and occupation in others — they never publish the crossing of them as a single figure. Each number here comes from its own official table, and none of them describes an individual person.
Sex
المصادر: الهيئة العامة للإحصاء (مسح القوى العاملة والإحصاءات السجلية) والبنك المركزي السعودي. المتوسط العام حتى الربع الثاني من 2026، والقطاعات والمناطق والمهن حتى 2022 وهي آخر سنة منشورة.
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