{"id":359185,"date":"2019-12-23T08:30:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T06:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=359185"},"modified":"2019-12-11T14:41:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T12:41:17","slug":"heres-how-much-money-drivers-tip-petrol-attendants-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/359185\/heres-how-much-money-drivers-tip-petrol-attendants-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s how much money drivers tip petrol attendants in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

While a culture of tipping is common in South Africa, it does not always extend to petrol attendants, a new BusinessTech poll shows.<\/p>\n

The poll, which was conducted at the start of December 2019 and drew over 2,900 responses, shows that South Africans are a little bit more stingy when it comes to service people at the pumps.<\/p>\n

When asked how much money motorists usually tip the petrol attendant when they visit a service station, the largest proportion of respondents (41%%) said they don\u2019t give anything at all.<\/p>\n

By comparison, 32% said that they tip R5, followed by those who give R10 (14%) and R2 (8%).<\/p>\n

Just 4% of respondents said that they tip R20.<\/p>\n

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According to the latest\u00a0jobs<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>data, petrol stations employ around 70,000 people across the country, with petrol attendants generally fitting the profile of 27-year-old men, who tend to stay in the job for up to five years.<\/p>\n

The Department of Energy employment numbers for 2018\/2019 showed that forecourt attendants earn a minimum of R1,313.55 per week (R5,250 a month), or R29.19 per hour, while cashiers earn slightly more (R1,382.40 per week).<\/p>\n

Salary data for the industry showed that generally petrol attendants earn just above this minimum wage at R5,600 a month, going as high as R8,000 a month in some cases.<\/p>\n

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Read: Here is the expected petrol price for December<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A culture of tipping remains common in South Africa but this does not always extend to petrol attendants, a new BusinessTech poll shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":299754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-359185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359185","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=359185"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361578,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359185\/revisions\/361578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}