Sources and rates

Not included or not confirmed

• The Labor Law file read on hrsd.gov.sa is the 2005 translation. Royal Decree No. M/44, in force from February 2025, amended Articles 2, 7, 22 to 25 and others, and the Council of Ministers law portal (laws.boe.gov.sa) did not respond in this check, so the amended text of each article was not read. Articles 84, 85, 87, 107 and 109 are used as in the 2005 text, which the Ministry awareness guide of December 2025 repeats.
• Reports say the 2025 amendments add a definition of resignation tied to fixed-term contracts and a resignation procedure (Article 79 bis), and allow paid compensatory leave in place of overtime pay with the worker's consent. These were taken from secondary sources only and no figure on this site depends on them.
• How a service year is counted. The calculators count calendar years from the first day to the last day, both included, with a part year in proportion to the days of that anniversary year (Article 84 says only 'in proportion to the time spent on the job'). A payroll that counts months or a 360-day year can differ.
• Article 85 reads 'not less than two ... and not more than five' for one third and 'in excess of five ... but less than 10' for two thirds. The calculators put exactly 5 years at one third and exactly 10 years at the full award, as the Ministry knowledge centre and awareness guide do.
• Which wage counts. Article 84 uses 'the last wage', and Article 2 defines wage as the actual wage (basic wage plus allowances and other due increments). The calculators use the whole monthly wage you enter. Article 86 lets the parties leave out commissions and similar variable pay, and in-kind benefits are valued in Article 2; none of that is modelled.
• Whether an end-of-service award is due after a dismissal under Article 80 (the Article says 'without giving the worker an award, advance notice, or indemnity'), after a termination during probation (Article 54), or after a resignation that is not accepted. The calculators show 'no award' for a dismissal under Article 80 and no figure for the other cases.
• Whether a worker who leaves without notice under Article 81 (employer breach) is treated as a resigning worker for Article 85. The calculators do not model this case: the resignation scale is for a plain resignation, and the full-award choices are limited to the Article 87 cases.
• The day's wage as wage divided by 30 and the 8-hour day used for the overtime hourly wage come from the worked example in the Ministry awareness guide. The Labor Law text read gives no divisor, and its Article 98 sets 8 hours a day only as the normal day in other articles.
• How the pay for unused annual leave is counted for a part year and for the step from 21 to 30 days. Article 111 says 'in proportion to the part he spent at work'; this site accrues 21 days a year for the first 5 years and 30 days a year after, pro rata by day.
• Whether the leave pay at the end of service is worked out on the actual wage. Article 111 says 'a wage'; Article 2 defines wage as the actual wage.
• GOSI: the Annuity page read gives 9% employer and 9% employee for Saudi nationals. The SANED employee share of 0.75% was read only in the wording of a GOSI FAQ question, and another GOSI FAQ question mentions an employer share of 1%, so the SANED employer share is not stated. The occupational hazards rate (2% in older GOSI text, 1.5% in a newer page reported by one source) and the rates for Saudi workers hired from 3 July 2024 were not confirmed on a GOSI page. No contribution is calculated.
• For foreign workers the GOSI Annuity page read says the annuities branch applies to Saudi nationals only. The occupational hazards branch covers all workers and is paid by the employer, but its exact rate is not confirmed (see above).
• No official worked example of the end-of-service award was found on the Ministry sites. The results were checked by hand and against a second, independent implementation.
• The Ministry's own end-of-service calculator was not run in this check, so no comparison with its output is given.