Saudi workforce in the kingdom’s retail and wholesale sector has jumped 25% at the end of the first quarter of 2019, with around 440,000 local men and women employed in the industry, compared to about 330,000 last year, according to Arabic daily Al-Eqtisadiah, which quoted official figures.
The number of employees in the sector rose by 50,000 to 166,135 from last year, while the number of working men remained the same at 273,709. The industry’s total number of employees stood at 2,049,245, with as many as 1,609,401 being expatriates and 28,520 being women.
