Saudi Arabia Overtime Pay Calculator

The calculator uses the basic salary, because Article 107 sets the premium at 50% of the basic wage and that is the statutory minimum. Some employers compute the hourly wage on the actual wage (basic plus allowances) under their own policies or contracts, so check your company's work regulations.

Divide the monthly basic salary by 30 days and then by 8 hours, that is by 240. A basic salary of 6,000 SAR gives an hourly wage of 25 SAR and an overtime rate of 37.50 SAR.

Yes. Article 107 states that all hours worked on holidays and Eid days are overtime hours, paid at 150% of the basic hourly wage; enter them in the second field of the calculator. The weekly rest day cannot be replaced by cash (Article 104), and if work requires you to work on it, enter those hours in the same field because the rate is the same.

The law sets no separate daily cap on overtime, but Article 106 requires that in the exceptional cases where extra work is allowed, actual working hours do not exceed 10 a day or 60 a week. Hours beyond 8 a day or 48 a week are overtime under Articles 98 and 107.

Working hours for Muslim workers drop to 6 a day or 36 a week during Ramadan under Article 98, so every hour beyond that is overtime paid at 150% of the basic hourly wage.

Under Article 108 the working-hours rules of Article 98 do not apply to people in senior management or supervisory positions that give them the employer's authority over workers, to preparatory or complementary work done before or after the working day, or to guards and cleaners other than civil security guards. Everyone else covered by the Labor Law is entitled to overtime pay.