{"id":247153,"date":"2018-05-25T09:24:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T07:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=247153"},"modified":"2018-10-03T16:13:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T14:13:33","slug":"10-of-the-highest-paying-jobs-in-south-africa-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/247153\/10-of-the-highest-paying-jobs-in-south-africa-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"10 of the highest paying jobs in South Africa right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jobs portal CareerJunction has published its annual salary survey, 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<p>The salary review is compiled exclusively for South African job seekers and the HR\/Recruitment industry to give a true representation of cost-to-company salary packages.<\/p>\n<p>The report provides up-to-date salary information including regional differences in monthly remuneration using actual salary offerings on CareerJunction\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.careerjunction.co.za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> for the latest measurable period &#8211; December 2017 to May 2018.<\/p>\n<p>However some high paying professions such as lawyers, with that data available in more detailed <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/239575\/how-much-lawyers-earn-in-south-africa-in-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> <\/strong>based on firm sizes and types. Doctor positions are not represented in the report, also regarded as a high paying profession.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, engineers remain some of the highest earners in the country, with highest earners, environmental engineers, taking home an average monthly salary of around R75,941 (R911,292 per yer).<\/p>\n<p>Senior managers across a variety of sectors also earn well, with\u00a0senior financial managers taking home an average salary of R67,653 a month (R811,836 a year), and senior IT managers taking home an average salary of R68,281 (R819,372 a year).<\/p>\n<p>Based on its comprehensive jobs data BusinessTech looks at those positions that pay the highest salaries at the top end according to CareerJunction.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bt_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"44%\">Job<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"29%\">Average monthly salary<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"27%\">Average annual salary<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Environmental engineer<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0R75 941<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0R911 292<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Civil engineer<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0R74 779<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0R897 348<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Structural engineer<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">R71 377<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0R856 524<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>IT management<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0R68 281<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0R819 372<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Financial management<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0R67 653<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0R811 836<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Plant manager<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0R62 188<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0R746 256<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Chartered accountant<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0R60 795<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0R729 540<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Quantity surveying<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">R60 227<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0R720 454<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Electrical engineer<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0R59 792<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0R717 504<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Technical and business architect<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0R58 981<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0R707 772<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/246883\/south-african-salaries-in-2018-what-people-earn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South African salaries in 2018: what people earn<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are some of the best paying jobs in South Africa right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":144519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[1438,26],"class_list":["post-247153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-careerjunction","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247153","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=247153"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275181,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247153\/revisions\/275181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}