Saudi hiring and compliance
A band is not a badge.It is what you are allowed to do.
In Red, new visas stop. Work-permit renewals stop. Iqama transfers stop. You leave the government tender list. The instrument works out your gap exactly. The list below closes it with actual people.
To reach 35% you need 11 more Saudi hires.
Find me 11 Saudi candidatesThis is a hiring plan, not a band determination. Your ratio is exact arithmetic. Your band is not: MHRSD sets it from your ISIC4 activity, your establishment size and, under Balanced Nitaqat, the wages you pay — and publishes it to you in Qiwa. Two numbers cannot produce it.
Four rungs. What changes is what you can do.
After the Balanced Nitaqat reform the ladder starts at Red, then Low, Medium and High Green, then Platinum. None of this is about pride. All of it is about government services opening or closing.
Below quota
- New work visas blocked
- Work-permit renewal blocked
- Iqama transfer blocked
- CR updates blocked
- Out of government tenders
Exactly at quota
- Services open
- No margin — one resignation drops you
- Reviewed continuously, not annually
Above quota, with room
- Visas at normal pace
- Full operational flexibility
- Headroom absorbs turnover
Substantially exceeds
- Priority on services
- Preference in tenders
- Strongest hand on transfers
of the engineering workforce must be Saudi at establishments with five engineers or more. That rule lands directly on the most-requested role on this desk.
Saudization of accounting roles, rising to seventy percent over five years. The figure you plan against today is not the figure you will be measured against.
Open on the desk right now
Live roles from the NukhbaTalent records. The ones marked with a Saudi preference count toward your ratio.
