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What job adverts for trades 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 163 job adverts that state a salary.
| Place | Median a month | Middle half | Adverts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gauteng | R28 200 | R28 200 to R41 600 | 88 |
| Western Cape | R28 100 | R16 800 to R40 600 | 34 |
| Pretoria | R28 200 | R21 100 to R33 100 | 17 |
| Cape Town | R45 000 | R29 600 to R91 700 | 15 |
| Mpumalanga | R21 100 | R16 800 to R21 100 | 13 |
| KwaZulu-Natal | R25 000 | R21 100 to R33 300 | 5 |
| Eastern Cape | R29 200 | R25 000 to R33 100 | 5 |
| Limpopo | R21 100 | R14 200 to R21 100 | 5 |
| Gqeberha | R31 100 | R28 100 to R35 200 | 4 (too few) |
| Johannesburg | R28 200 | R20 100 to R35 000 | 3 (too few) |
| Durban | R33 300 | R29 200 to R39 600 | 3 (too few) |
| Free State | R22 300 | R22 300 to R22 300 | 2 (too few) |
| Northern Cape | R24 900 | R24 900 to R24 900 | 1 (too few) |
| Polokwane | R29 200 | R29 200 to R29 200 | 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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