{"id":749310,"date":"2024-02-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=749310"},"modified":"2024-02-06T16:53:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T14:53:44","slug":"how-much-cashiers-security-guards-and-other-workers-get-paid-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/749310\/how-much-cashiers-security-guards-and-other-workers-get-paid-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"How much cashiers, security guards, and other workers get paid in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

South Africa will have a new minimum wage next month, but that does not mean that there is one figure that will apply to all sectors and jobs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, the Department of Employment and Labour announced that the minimum wage will be increased by 8.5% from R25.42 per hour to R27.58. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The minimum wage for domestic workers and farm workers was also raised to R27.58. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Workers employed in the expanded public sector programme can expect a minimum wage of R15.16 per hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Legal firm Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr <\/a>said that the National Minimum Wage Act of 2018 (Act) was enacted to advance economic development and justice by improving the wages of South Africa’s lowest-paid workers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Establishing a national minimum wage was also designed to protect workers from unreasonably low wages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the minimum wage is not necessarily consistent, with certain factors, such as sector, qualifications, location and number of hours worked, influencing the minimum amount employees are legally entitled to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The minimum wage is also trumped by sectoral determinations negotiated by various sectors of the economy – where workers get a higher guaranteed minimum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr compiled a detailed list of the minimum amount that contract cleaners, retail workers, security guards and more are owed for their work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wholesale and Retail Sector <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following wages in the wholesale and retail sector only apply to the following areas: <\/p>\n\n\n

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Source: Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The various wages that employees in the sector can earn are found below:<\/p>\n\n\n

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 Source: Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Source: Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Contract Cleaning Sector <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like the retail and wholesale sectors, the minimum wage in the contract cleaning sector varies according to area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those working as contract cleaners in the nation’s biggest metros should thus expect a slightly larger hourly wage: <\/p>\n\n\n

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Source: Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr<\/strong><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Workers who have learnership agreements (section 17 of the Skills Development Act 97 of 1998)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those in a work-based learning programme that leads to a nationally recognised qualification, the minimum wage depends on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) level: <\/p>\n\n\n

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Source: Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Source: Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Read<\/strong>: 28 jobs that have some of the highest starting salaries in South Africa \u2013 from R21,000 a month<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr has gone into finer detail in regard to South Africa’s incoming new minimum wage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":749312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9872],"tags":[1523,26],"class_list":["post-749310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-cliffe-dekker-hofmeyr","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749310","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\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749310"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749438,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749310\/revisions\/749438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}