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hr director salary in UAE and Saudi
What a hr director actually earns across the verified UAE and Saudi market, drawn from the Tenure Pay Index. Leading the HR function across business partnering, reward, and operations, reporting to a CHRO or the CEO. Check a specific salary against it below, free.
hr director 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 hr director rung. Every other rung in the sector, and the full range on each band, is on the sector page.
UAE · monthly total cash
AED 61,500
Market median
Middle of the market AED 52,500 to AED 75,000
The typical hr director in this market sits inside this range.
Saudi · monthly total cash
SAR 77,400
Market median
Middle of the market SAR 66,000 to SAR 94,800
The typical hr director in this market sits inside this range.
Built from verified primary sources, refreshed quarterly. Nothing here is self-reported or scraped from job listings.
New to the terms? Read what total cash compensation includes and how salary benchmarking works.
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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 Human Resources rung, not just the hr director
The Human Resources sector page publishes the full seniority ladder with the P25 to P75 range on every band, refreshed quarterly, across UAE and Saudi. Every row carries the count of verified sources behind it. Open a role free, or get full access for the complete ladder and history.
Common questions
HR director total-cash pay in the UAE sits at the median shown above. Scope drives the range: a director owning reward and operations for a multi-market business prices toward the top of the band, a single-market generalist remit toward the middle.
Yes. The Saudi HR director figure runs ahead of the UAE figure, reflecting Saudization-driven demand for senior national HR leadership. Both market cards above come from the same verified sources on the same quarterly refresh.
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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