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What job adverts for legal 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 77 job adverts that state a salary.
| Place | Median a month | Middle half | Adverts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gauteng | R41 100 | R32 000 to R79 700 | 36 |
| Pretoria | R41 700 | R26 800 to R109 800 | 19 |
| Johannesburg | R40 600 | R40 600 to R54 200 | 14 |
| Western Cape | R42 400 | R33 300 to R84 100 | 12 |
| KwaZulu-Natal | R64 600 | R41 600 to R80 200 | 6 |
| Eastern Cape | R30 700 | R30 700 to R44 200 | 4 (too few) |
| Cape Town | R107 100 | R62 100 to R120 200 | 3 (too few) |
| Free State | R37 400 | R34 100 to R40 800 | 2 (too few) |
| Limpopo | R53 700 | R37 800 to R69 600 | 2 (too few) |
| Mpumalanga | R103 600 | R103 600 to R103 600 | 2 (too few) |
| Durban | R59 700 | R47 900 to R71 500 | 2 (too few) |
| Pietermaritzburg | R43 300 | R35 700 to R50 800 | 2 (too few) |
| Polokwane | R53 700 | R37 800 to R69 600 | 2 (too few) |
| Mbombela | R103 600 | R103 600 to R103 600 | 2 (too few) |
| North West | R125 000 | R125 000 to R125 000 | 1 (too few) |
| Northern Cape | R132 400 | R132 400 to R132 400 | 1 (too few) |
| Midrand | R33 300 | R33 300 to R33 300 | 1 (too few) |
| Rustenburg | R125 000 | R125 000 to R125 000 | 1 (too few) |
| Kimberley | R132 400 | R132 400 to R132 400 | 1 (too few) |
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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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