religious jobs in Saudi Arabia

 A Saudi researcher indicated that "the number of religious jobs or those that are under the authority of clerics in the official establishment [in Saudi Arabia] is more than quarter of a million jobs, or 25% of all government jobs in 2008, and that the Awqaf Ministry appointed 140000 callers to prayer (mu'azzins) and Imams as full-time employees in 2010, and the number of mosques has reached 72,000 and the Office of Commanding Good and Discouraging Evil runs some 470 offices around the country, and they are staffed by 4400 employees.".