{"id":295966,"date":"2019-02-04T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=295966"},"modified":"2019-02-04T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T09:06:00","slug":"the-cheapest-and-most-expensive-places-to-live-as-an-it-professional-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/295966\/the-cheapest-and-most-expensive-places-to-live-as-an-it-professional-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The cheapest and most expensive places to live as an IT professional in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jobs website, Adzuna, has released a new report looking at the cost of renting in South Africa.<\/p>\n

The report is based on a comparison of more than 140,000 online job listings and the average rental prices in cities across the country.<\/p>\n

One of the key focuses of the research is on the IT industry and how much average worker’s salary goes towards paying rent every month.<\/p>\n

Adzuna’s job listings show that the national average salary for an IT job in South Africa is approximately\u00a0R516,031<\/strong> per year.<\/p>\n

It found that IT employees living in Gauteng spend just 20% of their monthly wages on rent, making it one of the most affordable cities for tech employees to live and work in.<\/p>\n

In comparison, the Western Cape still is the most expensive province, with an average of 32% spent on rent every month from an IT employee\u2019s average pay, the group said.<\/p>\n

“Although some employees are paid higher monthly salaries, they actually have a lot less to show for it since they have to deal with high costs of living and local property premiums,” said Adzuna country manager Jesse Green.<\/p>\n

“Alternative locations, like East London, offer a much more attractive deal that can help renters save money.<\/p>\n

“The extra cash they save on rental prices can be used to save up for a deposit to buy a home of their own,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Read: The cheapest and most expensive South African cities to rent in<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IT employees living in Gauteng spend just 20% of their monthly wages on rent, according to a new report by Adzuna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":295974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-295966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295966","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=295966"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295978,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295966\/revisions\/295978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}