JEDDAH: A new initiative to connect unemployed Saudi teachers to private schools in the Kingdom is currently under way by the Ministry of Labor's Human Resources Development Fund (Hadaf). Private schools are required to hire qualified Saudi teachers as part of the ministry’s goal to achieve total Saudization in this field. The Ministry of Education is offering financial incentives to private schools that hire large numbers of Saudi teachers.
This comes at a time when the ministry endeavors to create a minimum wage for Saudi teachers. Revised salaries for Saudi teachers of SR 5,600 per month include a travel allowance. School management will pay SR 3,100 and the fund will pay SR 2,500 to each teacher.
Director General of the fund Ibrahim Al-Moaeqali said: “A new method for paying subsidized salaries is being set up in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, local banks and the General Organization for Social Insurance.” More than 30,000 teachers are estimated to benefit from the new salary structure.
