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Non-Saudi employee cost calculator

The salary is not all an organisation pays for an expatriate employee. Add the levy, government fees, medical insurance and the end-of-service provision to see the real cost per month and per year.

Enter the details

Enter the details and press "Calculate" to see the result here, with each step of the calculation.

Rekaz tracks your employees' iqamas and costs without spreadsheets

The calculator handles one employee or one case. In Rekaz these figures come from your own employee records, with no spreadsheets or typing things twice.

Muqeem transactions

Iqamas and exit and re-entry visas, with iqama expiry alerts and Saudi employees excluded automatically.

Compliance alerts

Reminders before iqamas, contracts and documents expire.

Monthly end-of-service provision

The liability built up for each employee every month, ready for accounting entries.

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How is the cost of a non-Saudi employee calculated?

  • Levy: SAR 700 a month for each expatriate while the establishment's expatriates do not outnumber its Saudis, and SAR 800 when they do.
  • Work permit SAR 100 a year and iqama SAR 650 a year, spread over 12 months.
  • GOSI occupational hazards: 2% of (basic + housing), paid by the employer; nothing is deducted from the salary.
  • End-of-service provision: half a month's wage for each of the first five years (wage ÷ 24 a month), then a full month (wage ÷ 12).
  • Medical insurance is compulsory and depends on your policy; the annual ticket and exit and re-entry visas depend on the contract and the number of trips, and are spread over 12 months.
  • Transfer of sponsorship or recruitment is paid once, so it goes into the first year's cost, not the monthly cost.

Reference: the work-permit levy rules (Ministry of Human Resources), iqama fees (Absher), the Social Insurance Law and the Labor Law. Fees reviewed in November 2026.

Frequently asked questions

Who pays the levy and the iqama fees?

The employer. The Labor Law (Article 40) makes the employer bear recruitment fees, the iqama and work permit fees and their renewal, and the exit and re-entry visa, and they may not be deducted from the salary.

Are small establishments exempt from the levy?

Yes. In March 2024 the Council of Ministers extended for three years the exemption for establishments of nine workers or fewer including the owner: two expatriates if the owner works there full time and is registered with GOSI, and up to four if a full-time Saudi registered with GOSI also works there.

Is the dependants' levy part of the cost?

The calculator leaves it out: it is charged for the resident's family, not the worker, and the employer pays it only if the contract says so.

How does the calculator treat transfer of sponsorship or recruitment?

As a one-off amount added to the first year's cost, since it does not recur every month. Choose SAR 2,000, 4,000 or 6,000 for your case, or None for an employee already in post.

How does Rekaz help with my non-Saudi employees?

Rekaz tracks iqamas and exit and re-entry visas, alerts you before iqamas and contracts expire, and works out each employee's monthly end-of-service provision.

Related tools and pages: GOSI contribution calculator · End-of-service benefit calculator · Saudi compliance: GOSI, Muqeem, Mudad and Saudization

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What is Rekaz?

Rekaz (Rekaz ERP) is a Saudi cloud system for running organisations, Arabic-first with an English interface, used from the browser and phone. It brings HR and payroll, warehouses and procurement, and administrative correspondence into one system, and covers the whole employee journey from hiring to end of service and the final settlement.

Which modules does it include?

Employee records and the full employee file, contracts and letters, leave and balances, attendance and shifts, payroll and pay runs, end of service and settlements, probation, violations and penalties, GOSI, Muqeem and Mudad, recruitment, performance reviews and training, warehouses and inventory, procurement and suppliers, custody, administrative correspondence, payroll accounting entries, and reports and dashboards.

Does Rekaz follow the Saudi Labor Law?

Yes. It calculates leave entitlement, the end-of-service benefit and the resignation shares under the Labor Law, applies the schedule of violations and penalties from your work regulations, and lets you set policies to suit your organisation.

How do employees record attendance?

With ZKTeco fingerprint devices (connected and synced), from their phone inside the boundary of set work locations, or by importing an attendance file. Rekaz applies shifts and working rules, counts lateness and absence, and once the month is approved its effect moves to payroll.

Is there a mobile app for employees?

Yes. The employee portal installs as an app on Android and iPhone straight from the browser, with no app store. Employees request leave, advances and attendance corrections, see their payslip, leave balance and custody, and managers approve their team's requests.

How do approvals work?

You design the approval path for each request type yourself: direct manager, then HR, then finance, or any order you need. Each approver is notified, authority can be delegated during leave, and late requests are escalated automatically.

Does it calculate payroll automatically?

The monthly payroll centre brings together allowances and deductions and the effect of absence, leave, penalties and advances, flags differences before approval, then issues the pay run, employee payslips and payment orders, with the Mudad payment cycle, financial closing and accounting entries.

Does Rekaz handle GOSI, Muqeem and Mudad?

Yes: GOSI settings, reconciliation and transactions; Muqeem transactions with iqama expiry alerts (Saudi employees are excluded automatically); the Mudad payroll payment cycle; and a compliance and Saudization dashboard.

Does it cover recruitment and performance?

Yes. A careers portal for jobs and applicants, interviews and candidate scorecards, job offers, onboarding for new hires, then performance review forms and training throughout employment.

Is my data secure?

The connection is encrypted, administrator accounts have two-factor authentication, permissions follow each job, branch and department, every action is kept in an audit log, and the database is backed up.

Does it suit an organisation with several branches?

Yes. You define branches, departments and sections, grant permissions and approvals per branch and department, and see reports per branch or for the whole organisation.

Can we move our current employee data?

Yes. Rekaz imports employees from an Excel file, and we help you prepare your data when your subscription starts.

How much does it cost?

The price depends on the number of employees and the modules your organisation needs. Send us your name, organisation and headcount and we will send you a quote.

How do I start?

Press "Subscribe now", enter your name, organisation and number of employees, and WhatsApp opens with a ready message to the Rekaz team. We will contact you to show the system and set up your organisation's account.

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