Nearly 5 million expatriates working in the Kingdom earn less than SR1,000 a month, according to official records. More than 2.5 million non-Saudi workers receive monthly salaries of SR500 or below while the salaries of 2.3 million of them are less than SR1,000, Al-Watan daily reported on Thursday quoting an official report by the General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI). According to the report, 34,351Saudis are paid less than SR2,000 a month while the salaries of 1,28,428 of Saudis do not exceed SR3,000. It said some 250,000 Saudis and 230,000 expatriates receive salaries of SR10,000 and above.
