Odoo payroll in Saudi Arabia
Every Saudi Arabia payroll item that has to land in a salary rule, a bank file, or a statutory report, printed in full with its verification state.
3 items Printed as checked, not condensed.
What Saudi Arabia payroll has to calculate, withhold and file
Each item below becomes a salary rule, a bank file, or a report we test before the first live run.
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GOSI for Saudi employees totals 21.5% of covered wages: 9.75% from the employee and 11.75% from the employer. For non-Saudi employees it is 2%, paid by the employer.
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Odoo's Saudi payroll localization (l10n_sa_hr_payroll) sets GOSI deduction rates by employee nationality, handles end of service, and produces WPS reports. Employee bank records must carry an IBAN in line with WPS rules, so bank data quality is a go-live blocker, not a nice-to-have.
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Saudi Arabia is one of the twelve countries with an official Odoo payroll localization, so payroll does not have to be built from scratch. The others are Australia, Belgium, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Jordan, Kenya, Mexico, Turkiye, the United Arab Emirates and the United States.
Checked Localization notes on this page checked on 22 August 2026.
Rates, formats, thresholds and submission windows change. We configure against the rules in force at build time and confirm every figure with your accountant or tax advisor before sign-off. If a rule moves after go-live, it is a support ticket, not a rebuild. Read more on our Odoo localization service.
How we build payroll for Saudi Arabia
The delivery method behind the list above. The same four steps on a 10-user rollout and on a multi-company programme, with the depth scaled to the scope.
- 1 Rules, not hard-coded numbers. Contributions and deductions are built as Odoo salary rules with dated parameters, so a rate change is a configuration edit rather than a code release.
- 2 Employee data gets audited first. Bank details, national identifiers, start dates and contract types. Bad master data is why most payroll go-lives slip, and it is cheap to fix early.
- 3 One parallel run, minimum. We run at least one cycle alongside your current system and reconcile it line by line with your HR and finance leads before switching over.
- 4 Bank files tested with the bank. Payment files and statutory reports are generated from Odoo and put through your bank as a test batch before the first live run.
What we need from you to quote it
Bring these to the first call and you get a scoped, priced payroll plan for Saudi Arabia instead of a range.
- โ A full payslip for each contract type you run, from your current system.
- โ Your employee master file, including bank details and identifiers.
- โ The reports and files you submit today, and who you submit them to.
Services behind this work
The rest of the Saudi Arabia localization detail
Each topic has its own page with the full item list, the same way this one does.
Full detail, printed as checked.
Accounting and tax in Saudi ArabiaFull detail, printed as checked.
Payments in Saudi ArabiaFull detail, printed as checked.
Shipping in Saudi ArabiaFull detail, printed as checked.
Saudi Arabia country overviewServices, modules, client work and delivery for Saudi Arabia.
Payroll in other markets we cover
Running the same rollout across borders? These pages carry the same depth for each market, so you can compare before scoping a multi-country phase.
Scope payroll for your Saudi Arabia rollout.
Send us the list above with your answers against it. We come back with what is configuration, what is a connector, and what is a build, priced before the project starts.