Saudi Arabia is no longer offering huge salary bumps to expats | World News

Saudi cuts expat pay premiums as hiring slows / AI-Generated Image Saudi Arabia is quietly reshaping the way it hires foreign talent, scaling back the hefty salary premiums that once defined expat recruitment as businesses tighten budgets and reassess staffing needs across major sectors. Roles that previously came with automatic double-digit pay bumps are now […]

Saudi Arabia’s Q2 2025 budget: Non-oil revenues jump 7%, now nearly half of all government income | World News

The non-oil revenue growth helped soften the blow of a 29% drop in oil income, easing pressure on Saudi Arabia’s Q2 2025 budget deficit/ Image: Saudi Arabia Ministry of Finance In a significant financial development for Saudi Arabia, non-oil revenues in the second quarter of 2025 rose sharply by 7 percent, reaching SR149.861 billion ($39.9 […]