An admin assistant costs 50,000 to 90,000 riyals a year. Most of their day is simple, repetitive tasks, and hours with nothing to do. Then they resign, and you start training from scratch.
Where does the money go?
Salary isn’t the only cost. There’s social insurance, the time you spend on job posts and interviews, and the first weeks while a new hire learns how you work and which systems you use. Across the Kingdom, spending on clerical and admin support roles exceeds SAR 31 billion a year, according to our estimates based on GOSI data.
The hiring loop
Hire, train, resign, back to zero. Every time the loop repeats, work that was running stops, and knowledge that lived in one person’s head is gone.
The real question
How much of that money actually serves your business? If most of the work is invoices, appointments, expense logging, and follow-ups, it can be done in a simpler way, for far less.