Training and Wage Support

• Training Support
• Wage Subsidy Support
• Wage Increment Support

As an enterprise you must have an active commercial registration or license in Bahrain

Employees Eligibility Criteria:

• The employee must be a Bahraini national, registered with the SIO.
• The employee must meet or exceed the below salaries based on their highest academic qualifications:
  • High School Graduates (or lower): BD 300
  • Diploma Holders: BD 380
  • Bachelor Holders: BD 450

You are free to enrol your employees for only Wage Support or Training Support.

You must choose between either enrolling your employees in the Wage Subsidy or Wage Increment Support and the employees must meet the eligibility criteria for the support chosen.

If your enterprise is registered as a CR without license, you may apply to the program however you will not receive any financial support until you have gained the required licenses.

For Employee Enrolment:

• Copy of Employee’s Smartcard
• Copy of Employee’s Employment Contract
• Copy of Employee’s Highest Academic Qualification
• Copy of Employee’s Salary Slip
• Copy of Employee’s Job Description

We require the employee’s salary as reflected in the SIO.

The employee must be a Fresh Graduate which is defined as

• an employee with 0-2 years of working experience registered with the SIO; and
• 30 years old or less.

Tamkeen will subsidize your employees’ salaries for 18 months and the financial support during those 18 months will be broken down as:

• 1 – 12 Months: 50% of actual salary
• 13 – 18 Months: 30% of actual salary  
• This maximum support cap for Wage Subsidy Support is BD 500 per month

Tamkeen shall provide financial supports for wage increments of BD 20 up to BD 250 provided that the increment is not more than 40% of the employee’s current salary.

If, as an enterprise, you wish to extend the wage increment support for an additional 12 months, you must increment the employee’s salary again and Tamkeen shall cover the cost of the old and new increment for an additional 12 months. In order to qualify for the additional 12 months of Wage Increment Support the new salary must be reflected in the SIO.

You may apply to increase the employee’s salary up to the set minimum wage criteria, which will make your employee eligible for the Wage Increment Support.

For e.g.

Your employee is a high school graduate with a current salary BD 280

You increment the salary by BD 20

BD 280 + BD 20 = BD 300 which means the new salary matches the minimum wage criteria for High School Graduates.

The Wage Increment Support percentages for different salary levels are as all follows:

Employee’s Salary   Wage Increment Support

BD 1,000 & below                    100%

BD 1,001 - BD 2,000                50%

BD 2,001 - BD 3,000                25%

For all salary levels the Wage Increment Support is capped at BD 250.

Tamkeen’s Wage increment support is a percentage of the required increment. This is based on the salary of the Employee.

The wage increment must be reflected in the Basic Salary of the employee.

Yes, the employee’s new salary must be updated with the SIO to reflect the wage increment.

If you have applied your employee for Wage Increment Support after the SIO salary update window and have failed to update the employee’s new salary the next time the window becomes available again, Tamkeen will not process the payment requests for that employee.

Training Support is determined based on the Training Courses selected. Each training course has a fixed support amount that has already been pre-determined by Tamkeen.

An employee may only be enrolled in one course at a time. Upon completion of the course, they may be enrolled into another one.

Yes, you can obtain Training support for overseas courses. You can request to add the overseas course through Tamkeen’s portal. You will receive a 100% reimbursement for overseas courses once they have been completed by your employees.

We cover the following expenses for overseas training:

• Training Course Fees
• Flight Tickets
• Visa
• Accommodation
• Health Insurance
• Per Diem

The exact support caps for these expenses will be set and shared with the Enterprise upon approval.

Yes, you can obtain Training Support for online courses. You can request to add the online course through Tamkeen’s portal. You will receive a 100% reimbursement for online courses once they have been completed by your employees.