{"id":8769,"date":"2012-03-30T12:08:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T10:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=8769"},"modified":"2012-03-30T12:09:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T10:09:43","slug":"how-does-your-salary-compare-with-international-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/8769\/how-does-your-salary-compare-with-international-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"How does your salary compare with international standards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A BBC News Magazine web page enabled users to find out how their salary compare with gl0bal average wages.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC News website explains that the average wage, calculated by the International Labour Organization, is a rough figure based on data from 72 countries, omitting some of the world&#8217;s poorest nations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll figures are adjusted to reflect variations in the cost of living from one country to another, and as Ruth Alexander of BBC radio&#8217;s More or Less programme underlines, it&#8217;s all about wage earners, not the self-employed or people on benefits,\u201d BBC News states.<\/p>\n<p>According to the website, South Africa\u2019s average wage is $1,838 per month \u2013 slightly higher than the global average of $1,480.<\/p>\n<p>To check how your salary compares to global standards, visit the <strong><a title=\"BBC pay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-17543356\" target=\"_blank\">BBC pay comparison website<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8768\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Average-salaries.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8768\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8768\" title=\"Average salaries\" src=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Average-salaries.gif\" alt=\"Average salaries\" width=\"600\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Average-salaries.gif 600w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Average-salaries-300x146.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8768\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Average salaries<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you earn more or less than the world&#8217;s average wage? A new website by BBC will give you the answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2158,2168,26,2169],"class_list":["post-8769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-headline","tag-ruth-alexander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769","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=8769"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8773,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8769\/revisions\/8773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}