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What job adverts for construction work in South Africa 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.
Based on 117 job adverts that state a salary.
| Place | Median a month | Middle half | Adverts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gauteng | R52 300 | R33 300 to R79 100 | 38 |
| Western Cape | R45 800 | R32 800 to R59 200 | 31 |
| Cape Town | R50 000 | R35 000 to R59 200 | 23 |
| Mpumalanga | R66 000 | R33 900 to R90 300 | 15 |
| Johannesburg | R78 100 | R44 000 to R83 100 | 14 |
| Pretoria | R52 300 | R38 000 to R66 500 | 10 |
| KwaZulu-Natal | R71 600 | R55 300 to R82 900 | 7 |
| Mbombela | R73 600 | R65 800 to R96 100 | 6 |
| Eastern Cape | R76 200 | R50 000 to R79 900 | 5 |
| Durban | R55 300 | R41 000 to R70 800 | 4 (too few) |
| Midrand | R26 700 | R26 000 to R29 200 | 3 (too few) |
| Free State | R92 800 | R71 400 to R114 100 | 2 (too few) |
| Limpopo | R62 200 | R45 700 to R78 800 | 2 (too few) |
| Sandton | R33 300 | R31 200 to R35 400 | 2 (too few) |
| Centurion | R41 700 | R37 500 to R45 800 | 2 (too few) |
| Bloemfontein | R92 800 | R71 400 to R114 100 | 2 (too few) |
| Polokwane | R62 200 | R45 700 to R78 800 | 2 (too few) |
| Gqeberha | R50 000 | R50 000 to R50 000 | 1 (too few) |
| East London | R109 800 | R109 800 to R109 800 | 1 (too few) |
Open construction vacancies · All advertised salaries
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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