Construction salaries in Durban: Honde

Construction salaries in Durban

What job adverts for construction work in Durban 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: R55 300 a month
Middle half of adverts: R41 000 to R70 800
Lowest to highest: R32 000 to R83 300

Based on 4 job adverts that state a salary.

Only 4 adverts: too few to go by. Treat these figures as examples, not a typical salary.

Construction salaries elsewhere

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
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 in Durban · 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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