Finance & Accounting · Verified pay
financial controller salary in UAE and Saudi
What a financial controller actually earns across the verified UAE and Saudi market, drawn from the Tenure Pay Index. Owning the accounting close, controls, and statutory reporting for an entity or group. Check a specific salary against it below, free.
financial controller pay, by market
Total monthly cash, so the figure reflects base plus any typical variable, not base alone. These are the published market medians for the financial controller rung. Every other rung in the sector, and the full range on each band, is on the sector page.
UAE · monthly total cash
AED 52,500
Market median
Middle of the market AED 45,000 to AED 64,000
The typical financial controller in this market sits inside this range.
Saudi · monthly total cash
SAR 63,000
Market median
Middle of the market SAR 54,000 to SAR 77,000
The typical financial controller in this market sits inside this range.
Built from verified primary sources, refreshed quarterly. No band publishes on fewer than three sources.
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What you get
- Your percentile, on the matched band's rangeP10 to P90 for the matched band, a marker where your number sits, and a plain-English read of what that means.
- The source count behind the answerEvery band carries the number of verified primary sources it's built from. No confidence ratings to interpret, just the count.
- The roles around yoursMedian pay for the adjacent rungs and variants of the same role, so one check shows the shape of the ladder, not a single point.
- Methodology in the openHow bands are sourced, normalised, and refreshed is public at /methodology. The free tool runs on the same dataset the paid product does.
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See every Finance & Accounting rung, not just the financial controller
The Finance & Accounting sector page publishes the full seniority ladder with the P25 to P75 range on every band, source-counted and refreshed quarterly, across UAE and Saudi. Open a role free, or get full access for the complete ladder and history.
Common questions
Financial controller total-cash pay sits above finance manager and below VP Finance or CFO, at the median shown above. Group-level controllers and those over multi-entity structures land in the upper half of the range.
The financial controller sits one rung above the finance manager, owning the accounting and controls function, with finance managers typically reporting into it. Both bands are published on the Finance and Accounting sector page.
Every figure is drawn from the Tenure Pay Index, built from verified primary sources and refreshed quarterly. No band publishes on fewer than three sources. The full methodology is public.
Yes. The free benchmark tool on this page takes a role, level, market, and a salary you have in mind, and returns the exact percentile that salary sits at within the verified distribution. No signup, no card.
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