Expatriate nurses working in the Kingdom’s private hospitals and other health institutions want their compensation upgraded to the level of the wages of nurses employed in the government health sector, according to the results of a survey conducted recently by the newly organized Philippine Nurses Association-Eastern Province Saudi Arabia chapter.
Those who responded to the survey felt that there was a need to standardize the salaries and compensation of all expatriate nurses working in Saudi Arabia, irrespective of their nationality.
At present, the compensation of expatriate nurses working in private hospitals is about half of the salary of their counterparts employed in government health institutions. The average monthly salary of foreign nurses working in government hospitals is SR4,500.
The survey indicated that the experience and training of foreign nurses employed in the private health area and government sector are the same and therefore survey respondents felt that the rate and level of their salaries should be uniform and equal.
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