{"id":525464,"date":"2021-10-03T17:30:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T15:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=525464"},"modified":"2021-10-01T15:20:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T13:20:34","slug":"heres-how-much-money-government-employees-earn-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/525464\/heres-how-much-money-government-employees-earn-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s how much money government employees earn in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Public Service and Administration minister Ayanda Dlodlo has outlined how much government employees earn in South Africa, and the cost of introducing the latest wage increase.<\/p>\n

Answering in a written parliamentary Q&A this week, Dlodlo explained that there are currently 16 salary bands across the public service, with employees in band 1 earning an average salary of R103,562.<\/p>\n

By comparison, public sector workers in band 16 currently earn an average of over R2.1 million.<\/p>\n

Dlodlo also provided a breakdown of how many workers are in each salary band, with the largest number of workers falling between salary bands 5 and 9.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Salary band<\/th>\nTotal number of employees per salary level<\/th>\nCurrent average salary per salary level<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\n263<\/td>\nR103 562<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\n77 651<\/td>\nR171 278<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\n69 003<\/td>\nR206 957<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\n38 663<\/td>\nR247 296<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\n201 244<\/td>\nR283 227<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\n129 361<\/td>\nR332 985<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\n306 703<\/td>\nR411 227<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\n159 899<\/td>\nR479 868<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\n99 927<\/td>\nR567 956<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\n54 510<\/td>\nR710 273<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\n35 365<\/td>\nR851 022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>\n27 399<\/td>\nR1 222 246<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\n7 660<\/td>\nR1 147 609<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>\n2 405<\/td>\nR1 378 620<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\n528<\/td>\nR1 661 168<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>\n712<\/td>\nR2 130 602<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Data from the 2020 Budget shows that the average government worker remuneration passed\u00a0R400,000 a year in 2019, with this figure heading\u00a0towards the R450,000 mark in 2021.<\/p>\n

This is not spread equally across all public servants, but there has been a clear trend towards public servants being paid a lot more, in general.<\/p>\n

Research conducted by market analytics group Intellidex\u00a0at the end of 2020<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0found that using inflation-adjusted income bands, there has been a declining share of government personnel earning less than an inflation-adjusted R20,000 per month \u2013 from 85% of staff in 2006\/07 to 48% in 2018\/19 \u2013 and a rising share of staff earning above that figure.<\/p>\n

The fastest-growing income band consists of staff earning above an inflation-adjusted monthly salary of R30,000. The number has increased over five-fold in 12 years, it said. There has been a twelvefold increase in staff earning between R30,000 and R40,000 per month, and a five-fold increase in the number of staff making in excess of R60,000 per month.<\/p>\n

Intellidex said that the increase in top-earners in the public service had been driven by a dramatic rise in the number of medical professionals \u2013 overwhelmingly doctors \u2013 rather than ordinary public servants, administrators and policymakers.<\/p>\n

By comparison, the average formal sector salary in South Africa is\u00a0R23,122 a month<\/strong>, including bonuses and overtime,\u00a0according to Stats SA<\/a><\/strong>. Research conducted by the Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice and Dignity group meanwhile, found that 56% of South Africans live on less than R1,300 a month.<\/p>\n

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Read: If you want to be a top earner in South Africa, work for government<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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