Saudis			Non-Saudis			Total
	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total
Directors and managers	111,553	47,992	159,545	68,676	955	69,631	180,229	48,947	229,176
Specialists in professional, technical and humanitarian fields	85,324	43,616	128,940	635,610	27,962	663,572	720,934	71,578	792,512
Technicians in professional, technical and humanitarian  fields	109,312	71,596	180,908	602,430	56,142	658,572	711,742	127,738	839,480
Clerical occupations	297,834	239,842	537,676	55,366	2,356	57,722	353,200	242,198	595,398
Sales occupations	137,330	128,209	265,539	503,214	1,968	505,182	640,544	130,177	770,721
Service occupations	292,194	44,484	336,678	2,640,641	117,213	2,757,854	2,932,835	161,697	3,094,532
Agriculture, animal husbandry, fishing	2,949	633	3,582	501,986	104	502,090	504,935	737	505,672
Supporting basic engineering occupations	202,381	20,485	222,866	2,888,491	551	2,889,042	3,090,872	21,036	3,111,908
Industrial and chemical processes and food industries occupations	24,159	8,110	32,269	190,713	12,654	203,367	214,872	20,764	235,636
Other occupations	30,036	888	30,924	4,849	393	5,242	34,885	1,281	36,166
Total	1,293,072	605,855	1,898,927	8,091,976	220,298	8,312,274	9,385,048	826,153	10,211,201

Source: Ministry of Labour and Social Development, Data section
 
ANNEXED NOTE
 
1. Technical Notes and Definitions

Ministry of Labour’s records of employed labourers.
Classification used for occupations is adapted from ISCO 1988.

2. Institution which provides data 

Ministry of Labour and Social Development (MLSD).
https://mlsd.gov.sa/en/
https://mlsd.gov.sa/

3. Data availability 

Ministry of Labour’s records of employees and job-seekers in the private sector are published in chapter “Labour and Social Security” of GAStat’s Annual Yearbooks (in Arabic and English, Excel format):
https://www.stats.gov.sa/en/940
The data is also published in the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) Annual Statistics (“miscellaneous statistics” section) (Excel format)
http://www.sama.gov.sa/en-US/EconomicReports/Pages/YearlyStatistics.aspx

Last date of access: July 2018.

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