Arab News reports that Saudi government employees will receive a 15% raise, staged over the next three years. The raise is intended to offset the effects of inflation, now running at around 5%/year in the country. This is the second salary raise state employees will have received since King Abdullah ascended the throne. It was nearly 20 years since the last raise. There is no mention whether certain categories of employees are excluded, so it appears that this applies to all state employees.

Govt employees to receive 15 percent inflation allowance
P.K. Abdul Ghafour | Arab News

JEDDAH: Government employees and non-Saudi government contractors will receive a 15 percent inflation allowance from the beginning of the next Hijrah year, corresponding to Dec. 18, 2009, informed sources said.

Ministries and government departments have already moved the file of government employees to complete the procedures for including the allowance in their monthly salaries, an Arabic newspaper said.

The Council of Ministers, chaired by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, approved the inflationary allowance in January 2008 as part of measures taken by the government to counter inflation.

The Cabinet said government employees would receive an allowance of five percent of the basic salary in the first year, 10 percent in the second year and 15 percent in the third year.
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