Salary rate
Annual
Month
Semimonthly
Weekly
Day
Hour
Withholding
Salary
19,382 SAR
Social Security
- 1,471 SAR
Unemployment
- 163 SAR
Total tax
- 1,635 SAR
Net pay
* 17,747 SAR
Marginal tax rate
68.6%
Average tax rate
8.4%
91.6%
Net pay
8.4%
Total tax
Total tax
Net pay
The Taxberg
17,747 SAR
Net pay
1,961 SAR
Tax the employer pays
1,635 SAR
Tax you pay
Total tax paid
3,596 SAR
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer 1,961 SAR to pay you 19,382 SAR. In other words, every time you spend 10 SAR of your hard-earned money, 1.86 SAR goes to the government.
Real tax rate
16.8%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 8.4% tax rate now rises to 16.8%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 8.4% higher than what it seemed at first.
Summary
If you make 19,382 SAR a year living in Saudi Arabia, you will be taxed 1,635 SAR. That means that your net pay will be 17,747 SAR per year, or 1,479 SAR per month. Your average tax rate is 8.4% and your marginal tax rate is 68.6%. This marginal tax rate means that your immediate additional income will be taxed at this rate. For instance, an increase of 100 SAR in your salary will be taxed 68.63 SAR, hence, your net pay will only increase by 31.37 SAR.
Bonus Example
A 1,000 SAR bonus will generate an extra 314 SAR of net incomes. A 5,000 SAR bonus will generate an extra 1,569 SAR of net incomes.
North America
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
USA
SAR 17703
8.7%
1
Canada
SAR 15765
18.7%
2
Africa
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
South Africa
SAR 19115
1.4%
1
Morocco
SAR 17382
10.3%
2
Cameroon
SAR 15942
17.8%
3
Ivory Coast
SAR 15798
18.5%
4
Kenya
SAR 15589
19.6%
5
Mozambique
SAR 15510
20.0%
6
Ghana
SAR 14722
24.0%
7
Angola
SAR 14629
24.5%
8
Zambia
SAR 14069
27.4%
9
Senegal
SAR 13726
29.2%
10
Uganda
SAR 13700
29.3%
11
Nigeria
SAR 13649
29.6%
12
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Middle East
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
United Arab Emirates
SAR 18413
5.0%
1
Qatar
SAR 18413
5.0%
2
Bahrain
SAR 17831
8.0%
3
Oman
SAR 17831
8.0%
4
Saudi Arabia
SAR 17747
8.4%
5
Kuwait
SAR 17250
11.0%
6
Israel
SAR 16833
13.2%
7
Egypt
SAR 15270
21.2%
8
Lebanon
SAR 15246
21.3%
9
Turkey
SAR 11998
38.1%
10
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NOTE* Withholding is calculated based on the tables of Saudi Arabia, income tax. For simplification purposes some variables (such as marital status and others) have been assumed. This document does not represent legal authority and shall be used for approximation purposes only.