What is Nitaqat?
Nitaqat is Saudi Arabia's Saudization programme, which grades private-sector establishments into coloured bands according to the proportion of Saudi nationals they employ.
Nitaqat explained
Establishments are placed into bands — commonly Platinum, Green tiers, and Red — based on their Saudization percentage relative to sector and size peers. The band determines access to work permits, employee transfers and government services.
A falling band restricts an employer's ability to hire or renew expatriate staff, so Nitaqat position is an operational constraint rather than a reporting formality.
Because band calculations are relative to peers and updated continuously, tracking the ratio in real time is materially more useful than reporting it after the fact.
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