{"id":45585,"date":"2013-09-09T23:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T21:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=45585"},"modified":"2013-09-09T23:05:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T21:05:14","slug":"salary-disconnect-in-sa-it-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/45585\/salary-disconnect-in-sa-it-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Salary disconnect in SA IT industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new report reveals a\u00a0disconnect between the salary\u00a0expectations\u00a0of South Africa’s engineering and IT students, and real world salary indicators.<\/p>\n

Universum\u2019s South African “Companies of the Future” report,\u00a0based on a survey of 16,900 students from 23 universities, shows that engineering and IT student have the highest salary expectations, an\u00a0average of R258,071 annually\u00a0\u00a0immediately after graduating.<\/p>\n

Health care and science students expect an average annual salary of R243,218 in their first job. Business, Commerce and Management students expect R238,939 per year.<\/p>\n

Expectations and reality<\/h3>\n

According to the 2013 ITWeb salary survey however, an entry level IT employee should expect to earn R139,000 for at least the first two years following graduation.<\/p>\n

Payscale\u2019s statistics show that the entry-level salary for a BSc Computer Science graduate is R142,563, while entry-level engineering salaries range between R185,000 and R211,000 per year.<\/p>\n

Crystal van Soest from Express Employment Professionals substantiated these statistics, saying that entry level IT salaries for graduates start from as low as R8,000 per month (R96,000 per year).<\/p>\n

\"Entry<\/a>

Entry IT Salary – expectation vs reality<\/p><\/div>\n

According to van Soest entry-level IT salaries in South Africa range significantly based on salary and region.<\/p>\n

BCom Informatics graduates, for example, can only expect to earn between R96,000 and R144,000 annually in their first job. Electronic engineers in Johannesburg, on the other hand, can earn above R300,000 in their first year.<\/p>\n

More on SA salaries<\/h3>\n

Which banking CEO earns the highest salary?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Pule\u2019s multi-million pay day<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

IT Salaries in SA revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Competition heats up for IT, telecoms jobs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While IT students may expect to be earning big bucks straight out of university, real-world salary indicators paint a different picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":45589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,5545,6616],"class_list":["post-45585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-it-salaries","tag-universum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45585","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=45585"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45594,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45585\/revisions\/45594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}