Salary rate
Annual
Month
Semimonthly
Weekly
Day
Hour
Withholding
Salary
16,920,000 SAR
Social Security
- 48,600 SAR
Unemployment
- 5,400 SAR
Total tax
- 54,000 SAR
Net pay
* 16,866,000 SAR
Marginal tax rate
0.0%
Average tax rate
0.3%
99.7%
Net pay
0.3%
Total tax
Total tax
Net pay
The Taxberg
16,866,000 SAR
Net pay
64,800 SAR
Tax the employer pays
54,000 SAR
Tax you pay
Total tax paid
118,800 SAR
Did you know your employer also pays tax on your salary? It costs the employer 64,800 SAR to pay you 16,920,000 SAR. In other words, every time you spend 10 SAR of your hard-earned money, 0.07 SAR goes to the government.
Real tax rate
0.7%
So, with you and the employer both paying tax, what used to be a 0.3% tax rate now rises to 0.7%, meaning your real tax rate is actually 0.4% higher than what it seemed at first.
Summary
If you make 16,920,000 SAR a year living in Saudi Arabia, you will be taxed 54,000 SAR. That means that your net pay will be 16,866,000 SAR per year, or 1,405,500 SAR per month. Your average tax rate is 0.3% and your marginal tax rate is 0.0%. 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 0 SAR, hence, your net pay will only increase by 100 SAR.
Bonus Example
A 1,000 SAR bonus will generate an extra 1,000 SAR of net incomes. A 5,000 SAR bonus will generate an extra 5,000 SAR of net incomes.
Compare average tax
North America
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
USA
SAR 9149968
45.9%
1
Canada
SAR 7950522
53.0%
2
Latin America
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Guatemala
SAR 14978483
11.5%
1
Brazil
SAR 12269105
27.5%
2
Costa Rica
SAR 11400053
32.6%
3
Panama
SAR 11319047
33.1%
4
Mexico
SAR 11016090
34.9%
5
Argentina
SAR 10997974
35.0%
6
Puerto Rico
SAR 10960114
35.2%
7
Colombia
SAR 10409243
38.5%
8
Peru
SAR 10393061
38.6%
9
Uruguay
SAR 10378904
38.7%
10
Chile
SAR 10243502
39.5%
11
Ecuador
SAR 9703437
42.7%
12
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Middle East
Country 
Net pay
Average tax
Rank
Kuwait
SAR 16880216
0.2%
1
Saudi Arabia
SAR 16866000
0.3%
2
Bahrain
SAR 16717314
1.2%
3
United Arab Emirates
SAR 16074000
5.0%
4
Qatar
SAR 16074000
5.0%
5
Oman
SAR 15566400
8.0%
6
Egypt
SAR 12691036
25.0%
7
Lebanon
SAR 12690709
25.0%
8
Turkey
SAR 9855095
41.8%
9
Israel
SAR 8551835
49.5%
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.