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What job adverts for tech 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 256 job adverts that state a salary.
| Place | Median a month | Middle half | Adverts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gauteng | R60 000 | R40 600 to R83 300 | 131 |
| Johannesburg | R60 000 | R44 200 to R83 800 | 64 |
| Western Cape | R60 000 | R40 600 to R84 000 | 51 |
| Cape Town | R60 000 | R40 300 to R83 300 | 47 |
| Pretoria | R41 700 | R39 100 to R77 700 | 28 |
| KwaZulu-Natal | R52 100 | R40 100 to R77 700 | 18 |
| Centurion | R83 300 | R60 000 to R91 700 | 13 |
| Eastern Cape | R30 700 | R23 700 to R42 500 | 12 |
| Sandton | R57 500 | R33 300 to R96 200 | 12 |
| Durban | R50 000 | R37 500 to R68 800 | 11 |
| Midrand | R37 500 | R35 600 to R46 900 | 6 |
| Limpopo | R34 400 | R34 400 to R50 500 | 5 |
| Gqeberha | R50 000 | R40 000 to R60 000 | 5 |
| North West | R51 300 | R23 700 to R77 700 | 4 (too few) |
| Northern Cape | R47 700 | R42 900 to R61 300 | 4 (too few) |
| Kimberley | R47 700 | R42 900 to R61 300 | 4 (too few) |
| East London | R19 800 | R17 000 to R19 800 | 3 (too few) |
| Pietermaritzburg | R40 600 | R39 900 to R60 700 | 3 (too few) |
| Polokwane | R34 400 | R34 400 to R72 100 | 3 (too few) |
| Mpumalanga | R34 400 | R34 400 to R34 400 | 2 (too few) |
| Mbombela | R34 400 | R34 400 to R34 400 | 1 (too few) |
| Rustenburg | R25 000 | R25 000 to R25 000 | 1 (too few) |
| Remote | R87 500 | R87 500 to R87 500 | 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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