Day 1: quotation
Send the role, city in Pakistan, gross salary and start date. A fixed quotation in SAR or USD the next working day.
Crown Enterprises employs and pays your Pakistan-based staff on your behalf, so a business in Saudi Arabia can have people in Lahore, Karachi or Islamabad without a Pakistani company. Contract, payroll, tax, EOBI, insurance, leave and gratuity handled; invoiced in SAR or USD; live in seven working days.
Saudi companies increasingly rely on Pakistan for procurement and tender coordinators, estimators and quantity surveyors, AutoCAD and Revit drafters, accountants, document controllers, customer-service staff in Urdu and English, and candidates selected for Saudi roles who are waiting for an iqama. Paying them informally works until it does not: no contract to enforce, no insurance when they fall ill, no pension, and a misclassification question if an auditor or investor asks. Crown's payroll desk gives the person a real Pakistani employment contract in Crown's name and gives you one itemised invoice a month, while you keep full control of the work.
Pakistan is only two hours ahead of Riyadh, so the working days overlap almost completely.
Send the role, city in Pakistan, gross salary and start date. A fixed quotation in SAR or USD the next working day.
Two-page service agreement between your business and Crown: fee, payment terms, IP, confidentiality, notice. Signed by email.
Employee documents collected, employment contract signed, FBR, EOBI, social security and insurance in place.
Invoice on the 20th, funds by the 25th, salary on the 1st, filings deposited, statement to you by the 10th.
| Item | Position |
|---|---|
| Withholding on fees paid to Crown | Saudi payers must withhold 5% on technical and consulting services paid to non-residents, or 15% on some categories, unless treaty relief applies. Our agreement includes a gross-up so the fee you agreed is the fee we receive, and we supply a Pakistani tax residency certificate to support a treaty claim. |
| Double taxation | Governed by the Pakistan–Saudi Arabia double taxation agreement; Crown supplies invoices, residency documents and deposit receipts on request. |
| Taxable presence in Pakistan | None. Crown is an independent employer; the employee does not contract in your name; the agreement says so. |
| Currency | SAR or USD. Rupee items converted at the bank rate on the invoice date; Crown's fee is fixed. |
| Employee income tax | Withheld monthly and deposited with the FBR by Crown; annual certificate issued. |
| Data | Confidentiality and data-handling clauses aligned with the Saudi Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) in both contracts. |
Gross salary, employer EOBI and social security, gratuity provision and the medical premium are passed through at cost and itemised. Crown adds a fixed monthly management fee per employee, lower from the second employee. One month's salary is held as a refundable deposit. The exact figure in SAR or USD is in your quotation the next working day.
Yes. Crown employs the person under Pakistani law and places them at your disposal under a service agreement. You never register anything in Pakistan; Crown carries the employment, payroll and filings.
Saudi payers must withhold 5% on technical and consulting services paid to non-residents, or 15% on some categories, unless treaty relief applies. Our agreement includes a gross-up so the fee you agreed is the fee we receive, and we supply a Pakistani tax residency certificate to support a treaty claim.
Crown. We apply every change in tax rates, contribution ceilings or leave entitlements automatically and show the effect as a separate line on the next invoice, so you are never out of compliance and never surprised.
Income tax withheld and deposited; EOBI pension and provincial social security; at least 14 days' annual leave plus casual and sick leave and public holidays; gratuity of thirty days' wages per completed year; a written contract with a notice period; and, through Crown, group medical cover.
Sixty days' written notice to Crown. We serve the statutory notice, settle leave and gratuity, issue the final tax certificate and bill the closing amounts, covered by the one-month deposit if needed.
Pakistan is only two hours ahead of Riyadh, so the working days overlap almost completely. The working schedule is written into the employment contract, so the hours you need are the hours the employee is contracted for.
Yes. If you have a role but no candidate, our recruitment desk shortlists in Pakistan within seven working days and the person you select goes straight onto the EOR payroll.
Role, city, salary. Crown replies with a fixed quotation in SAR or USD the next working day.