What do tech companies in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam actually pay?

We separate the parts of a package

Offers in the Kingdom are commonly quoted as a base salary plus allowances, so a base-only number understates what someone actually receives. Each report here records base pay, housing allowance and transport allowance separately, along with any thirteenth-month payment, annual bonus, equity and signing bonus, and combines them into an annualised total you can compare across employers.

Reports also record whether the contributor is a Saudi national or an expatriate, because packages for the two are often structured differently — and because a salary dataset that could not tell them apart would mislead both.

What you can and cannot see

Aggregates appear only once enough reports exist for a company, role and city combination that no individual could be identified from them. Below that threshold you will see a count of reports, not a figure. This is deliberate: a dataset people trust with their own numbers has to protect them.

One external reference point is published by the government: localised communications and IT roles carry a minimum of SAR 7,000 a month for specialised positions and SAR 5,000 for technical ones. Everything above that floor is what this dataset exists to reveal.

Why contribute

There is no free, credible, riyal-denominated salary dataset for Saudi technology roles broken down by company and seniority. The numbers that dominate search results are unverified estimates. Every report added here — including yours — is what replaces them.