
Explore the computation and disbursement of salaries in payroll processing, identify key activities, and compute salaries for small to medium organizations, while reviewing salary components.
Explore the components of payroll in Saudi Arabia, including basic salary, HRA, allowances, and special allowances, and explain gross pay, deductions, and net pay within the compensation structure.
Explore Saudi Arabia payroll fundamentals, including Gossi pension deductions at 9% for employees and 11% for employers, statutory versus non-statutory deductions, net pay after deductions, and reimbursements.
Learn how gross salary is calculated, focusing on basic pay, allowances, one-time payments, and special allowances, with basic pay at about 40% of CTC.
Explore the various allowances and reimbursements in payroll, including house rent allowance, air ticket allowance, transportation allowance, uniform allowance, schooling allowance, and other allowances, plus special allowance and one-time payments.
Understand one-time payments such as bonuses, commissions, incentives, and relocation allowances; learn how annual bonuses are paid, plus joining bonuses, notice payout buyout, severance pay, and leave and cash payments.
Explains leave encashment under Saudi payroll, detailing loss of pay (lop), unauthorised absence, pro-rata deductions on basic pay, hra, and special allowance, plus arrears and reimbursements.
Explain arrears calculation under a CTC-based salary, detailing how basic, HRA, and special allowance change with salary revisions, while fixed uniform allowance remains constant, and summarize year-end reimbursements.
Discover how to compute total deductions for payroll in Saudi Arabia, including statutory deductions like pension fund and GOSI, and non-statutory deductions such as loan installments and leave.
Identify statutory and nonstatutory payroll deductions, including loans, salary advances, fines, and other deductions, and learn how total deductions determine the net pay credited.
Compute net pay by subtracting total deductions from gross pay, after adding arrears, allowances, and reimbursements; stop and resume payroll processing per HR instructions while maintaining compliance.
Understand how payroll disburses salaries by generating the pay register, a record of gross pay and deductions, and apply validations to ensure accuracy and transparency with the salary register template.
Master three kinds of validations, including payroll data input files validation, head count validation, and cost validation by components, to ensure accurate salary disbursement in Saudi Arabia payroll processing.
Generate journal voucher and bank transfer statements to fund salaries and statutory remittances, and pass entries in the books using a four-column journal template detailing pay components and employees.
Explore the five bank transfer statement formats for Saudi payroll, including physical, Excel-based, bank login, direct transfer, and bank-defined formats, plus batch payments and wage protection system compliance.
Continue payroll processing for practitioners by reviewing salary components and net pay, learning salary disbursement methods (bank transfer, check, cash), and preparing for distributing salary slips in the next module.
Payroll processing is one of the most important and complex aspects of running a business. A payroll professional working/ willing to work in Saudi Arabia, must know how to process payroll and comply with the local labor laws and regulations.
This course has been specially designed to help the learners to understand the functions involved in processing payroll in Saudi Arabia and avoid any non-compliance. This course is ideal for the HR professionals, a payroll specialist, students and the HR/Payroll enthusiasts and will provide the detailed input about payroll processing in Saudi Arabia.
The course has been divided in Three parts, to help the learners, understand all the required steps for processing a payroll in a Saudi Arabia based organization, in a detailed way. The course also consists of relevant activities and resources at each stage to help the learners, to get a first hand experience of processing the payroll. The activities have been designed in a way, that will instill confidence in the learner of processing a payroll of a small organization manually, which can be even more helpful, while working in a technologically sound organization, where a proper HRIS/HRMS/ Salary processing software is in place.
This first part of the course will help the learners to know the function of collecting relevant information for processing payroll. It is very important to have the correct set of input before starting the payroll processing, so that the computation of payroll does not go wrong.
By the end of this part of the course, the learners would be able to
List the factors to be considered while computing payroll and disbursing salaries
Identify the activities performed by the payroll department while computing payroll and disbursing salaries
Discuss some of the best practices to be followed by a payroll department and
By the end of this course, the learner will have a solid understanding of the activity of gathering payroll inputs for payroll processing in Saudi Arabia and be able to handle it with confidence and accuracy. The learners will also have access to downloadable resources, such as templates, checklists, and guides and will be able to interact with the instructor through the Q&A section or on email.
This course is divided into short and engaging video lectures, quizzes, assignments, and case studies to make it easy to understand at the learner’s convenient speed. Basic knowledge of payroll processing is enough to start working with this course.