{"id":214629,"date":"2017-12-04T19:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=214629"},"modified":"2017-12-04T17:21:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T15:21:09","slug":"12-of-the-highest-paying-jobs-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/214629\/12-of-the-highest-paying-jobs-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"12 of the highest paying jobs in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jobs site CareerJunction has updated its salary trends data for 2017, showing how salaries vary across 10 major sectors in South Africa \u2013 and what employees can expect to earn at intermediate and senior level, including management.<\/p>\n

Civil and Structural Engineers remain some of the highest earners in the country, taking home and average monthly salary of around R80,853 (R970,236).<\/p>\n

According to data provided by Jobmail they are behind only certain architects, software engineers, accountants<\/a>, doctors and lawyers<\/a> (which are not accounted for in the CareerJunction data).<\/p>\n

Other high-paying jobs include financial managers with an average salary of R68,881 a month (R826,572 a year), and plant managers\u00a0with an average salary of R64,643 (R775,716 a year).<\/p>\n

Based on its comprehensive jobs data BusinessTech looks at the jobs that pay the highest salaries at the top end according to CareerJunction.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Job<\/th>\nAverage monthly salary<\/th>\nAverage annual salary<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Civil\/Structural Engineering<\/td>\n\u00a0R80 853<\/td>\n\u00a0R970 236<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Financial Management<\/td>\n\u00a0R68 881<\/td>\n\u00a0R826 572<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Plant Management<\/td>\nR64 643<\/td>\n\u00a0R775 716<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Environmental Engineering<\/td>\n\u00a0R64 352<\/td>\n\u00a0R772 224<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Electrical Engineering<\/td>\n\u00a0R61 342<\/td>\n\u00a0R736 104<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Technical and Business Architecture<\/td>\n\u00a0R61 121<\/td>\n\u00a0R733 452<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mechanical Engineering<\/td>\n\u00a0R60 004<\/td>\n\u00a0R720 048<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chartered Accountant<\/td>\nR59 777<\/td>\n\u00a0R717 324<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
IT Management<\/td>\n\u00a0R59 494<\/td>\n\u00a0R713 928<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Financial Analysis<\/td>\n\u00a0R57 275<\/td>\n\u00a0R627 300<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hospital Management<\/td>\n\u00a0R55 139<\/td>\n\u00a0R661 668<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0Electronic Engineering<\/td>\n\u00a0R53 574<\/td>\n\u00a0R642 888<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Read: South African salaries in 2017: what people earn right now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Based on its comprehensive jobs data BusinessTech looks at the jobs that pay the highest salaries at the top end according to CareerJunction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":128287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[9405,26,1398],"class_list":["post-214629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-career-junction","tag-headline","tag-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214629"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214649,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214629\/revisions\/214649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}