{"id":344154,"date":"2019-10-02T18:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=344154"},"modified":"2019-10-02T16:27:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T14:27:16","slug":"heres-how-much-money-the-average-worker-in-the-presidency-is-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/344154\/heres-how-much-money-the-average-worker-in-the-presidency-is-paid\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s how much money the average worker in the presidency is paid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency has published its annual report for the 2018\/19 financial year, revealing that it had paid out R6.74 million in salaries for both president Cyril Ramaphosa and deputy president David Mabuza.<\/p>\n<p>The payouts were in line with the budgeted salary expenditure as recorded in the budget speech for the 2018\/19 financial year, where the president was allocated a salary of R3.6 million, and the deputy president around R3.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the finance minister announcing in his February 2019 budget speech that a pay freeze would be instituted among the executive as part of a cost-cutting measure, the budgeted salaries for Ramaphosa and Mabuza in the 2019\/20 financial years, and beyond, are higher.<\/p>\n<p>In the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/budget-speech\/300798\/how-much-money-mabuza-and-ramaphosa-are-expected-to-earn-in-2019\/\">budget documents<\/a><\/strong>, the salary allocation for Ramaphosa in the current financial year is 8.3% higher at R3.9 million (R3.3 million for the deputy president).<\/p>\n<p>This is budgeted to increase to R4.2 million for the 2020\/21 and R4.5 million 2021\/22 financial years (R3.6 million in 2020\/21 and R3.8 million in 2021\/2022 for the deputy president).<\/p>\n<p>The president has previously donated half of his salary to the Nelson Mandela Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Average pay for employees<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the Presidency&#8217;s annual report, a total of R296 million was paid out in wages to employees.<\/p>\n<p>The department employs 540 people as at March 2018, with total compensation averaging R548,000 per person. This makes the president&#8217;s salary (R3.6 million) over six times larger (6.6x) than the average.<\/p>\n<p>Broken down among different pay levels, this is the reported average among workers in the presidency:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interns &#8211; <strong>R68,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Lower skilled (levels 1-2) &#8211; <strong>R159,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Skilled (levels 3-5) &#8211; <strong>R265,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Highly skilled production (levels 6-8) &#8211; <strong>R396,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Highly skilled supervision (levels 9-12) &#8211; <strong>R734,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Occupation Specific Dispensations &#8211; <strong>R1,094,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Senior management (levels 13-16) &#8211; <strong>R1,285,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Presidential-salaries.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-344162\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Presidential-salaries.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"923\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Presidential-salaries.png 2300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Presidential-salaries-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Presidential-salaries-768x329.png 768w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Presidential-salaries-1024x438.png 1024w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Presidential-salaries-1200x513.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 923px) 100vw, 923px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/305460\/ramaphosas-salary-vs-other-world-leaders\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Ramaphosa\u2019s salary vs other world leaders<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency has published its annual report for the 2018\/19 financial year, revealing that it had paid out R6.74 million in salaries for both president Cyril Ramaphosa and deputy president David Mabuza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":300236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-344154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344154","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=344154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344172,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344154\/revisions\/344172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}