{"id":25456,"date":"2012-10-30T13:11:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T11:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=25456"},"modified":"2012-10-30T13:12:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T11:12:56","slug":"white-versus-black-salaries-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/25456\/white-versus-black-salaries-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"White versus Black salaries in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stats SA released its Census 2011 results on 30 October, revealing that the average South African household income nearly doubled over the last decade.<\/p>\n

According to the Census 2011 results, the average annual household income was up to R103,204 from R48,385 recorded in Census 2001. This represents an increase of 113,3% in nominal terms.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Consumer Price Index indicates that income should have increased by 77.5% during this period to have stayed in line with inflation,\u201d the Census 2011 Statistical Release document states.<\/p>\n

Average annual household income by sex of head of household<\/h3>\n

The Census 2011 results show that the average female-headed household had just more than half the annual income in 2011 of their male counterparts – R67,330 versus R128,329.<\/p>\n

The average female-headed household had increased their income by 141.6% from 2001, as compared with male-headed households that saw a relatively lower increase of 101.7%.<\/p>\n

\"Male<\/a>

Male versus female household income<\/p><\/div>\n

Average annual household income by population group of household head<\/h3>\n

The Census 2011 statistics reveal a significant difference in the average annual household income across the different population groups.<\/p>\n

Black African-headed households were found to have an average annual income of R60,613 in 2011.<\/p>\n

Coloured-headed households had an average of R112,172 in 2011, while the figure for Indian\/Asian-headed households stood at R251,541.<\/p>\n

White-headed households had the highest average household income at R365,134 per annum.<\/p>\n

A comparison with the figures from 2001 does, however, show a bigger increase for black African-headed households of 169.1%, as opposed to an 88.4% increase for white-headed households.<\/p>\n

Indian\/Asian-headed households increased average income by 145.2% while coloured-headed households saw a 118.1% increase.<\/p>\n

\"Average<\/a>

Average annual household income by population group of household head<\/p><\/div>\n

Average annual household income by province<\/h3>\n

Census 2011 found that Limpopo remained the province with the lowest average annual household income at R56,844, followed by Eastern Cape where the average was R64,539.<\/p>\n

At the other end of the scale, Gauteng had the highest average annual household income at R156,243, followed by Western Cape with a figure of R143,460.<\/p>\n

The order of provinces from 2001 to 2011 remained the same in terms of average annual household income.<\/p>\n

The five provinces with the lowest average annual household income in 2001 have seen the largest percentage increases during the period 2001 to 2011.<\/p>\n

Households in Mpumalanga had the largest increase of 148.9% followed by those in Limpopo (147.3%), Free State (145.1%), North West (131.7%) and Eastern Cape (120.0%).<\/p>\n

In contrast, the average annual household income for households in Western Cape increased by 83.6% during this period, and the increase in Gauteng was 98.9%.<\/p>\n

\"Average<\/a>

Average annual household income by province<\/p><\/div>\n

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IT jobs in SA: good news and bad news<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

IT jobs in demand<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

SA\u2019s ICT job landscape<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The right IT skills in high demand<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

IT salary growth predictions for 2012<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stats SA’s Census 2011 reveals which gender, race groups and provinces have the highest annual household income.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4492,26,1809],"class_list":["post-25456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-census-2011","tag-headline","tag-stats-sa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25456","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25456"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25470,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25456\/revisions\/25470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}