Admin salaries in Johannesburg: Honde

Admin salaries in Johannesburg

What job adverts for admin work in Johannesburg offer, in rands a month before tax. These are advertised salaries from the adverts Honde has read in the last 12 months, not market rates or what people are actually paid.

Median advertised: R28 700 a month
Middle half of adverts: R22 000 to R40 600
Lowest to highest: R16 700 to R109 800

Based on 54 job adverts that state a salary.

Admin salaries elsewhere

Place	Median a month	Middle half	Adverts
Gauteng	R28 200	R19 800 to R34 400	180
Western Cape	R28 200	R21 200 to R34 400	115
Pretoria	R28 200	R19 800 to R34 400	75
Cape Town	R25 000	R19 800 to R34 400	43
Eastern Cape	R21 500	R19 800 to R30 700	42
KwaZulu-Natal	R28 200	R19 800 to R40 600	32
Limpopo	R28 200	R19 800 to R39 800	26
Mpumalanga	R26 800	R19 800 to R28 200	19
Free State	R28 200	R20 700 to R61 000	15
Bloemfontein	R28 200	R19 800 to R77 700	11
Polokwane	R34 400	R28 200 to R39 000	11
Mbombela	R28 200	R19 800 to R28 200	11
Northern Cape	R31 300	R19 800 to R39 100	10
Durban	R19 800	R19 800 to R26 100	10
North West	R24 000	R19 800 to R28 200	6
Sandton	R20 400	R18 800 to R20 800	6
Gqeberha	R20 700	R19 800 to R26 500	6
Midrand	R37 500	R22 500 to R119 500	5
East London	R19 800	R19 800 to R19 800	5
Pietermaritzburg	R20 700	R19 800 to R26 300	4 (too few)
Kimberley	R24 000	R19 800 to R31 300	4 (too few)
Centurion	R104 200	R64 600 to R143 800	2 (too few)

Open admin vacancies in Johannesburg · All advertised salaries

How these figures are worked out

Honde reads South African job adverts every day: employers' careers sites, government vacancy circulars and job boards. Only adverts that state a salary in rands with its period count, and most adverts don't, so these figures lean towards the kinds of job that publish pay, such as government posts. Each advert counts once, at the middle of its range, turned into a monthly figure (a year is 12 months; an hourly rate assumes 40 hours a week). Figures below R3 000 or above R300 000 a month are left out as likely typos or whole-package amounts.

The median is the advert in the middle: half offer less, half more. Government salaries in adverts are often the full package or the notch on a salary level, so read each advert for what it includes. Fewer than 5 adverts is too few to go by, and those pages are marked as such.

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