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Average hourly wage per industry and job type
Date: 28 August 2018 Category: Economics |
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We take a look at the Quarterly employment statistics (QES) results and estimate the average hourly wage of various job types within various industries for the first quarter of 2018.
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Average hourly wages per industry and job type
The bar chart below shows in descending order the average hourly wage of various jobs and within specific industries. The graphic shows the industry first, then the job within the industry as defined by the QES survey data published by Statistics South Africa. Based on the graphic the highest hourly wage is earned in the financial and business services sector, at R371.40 earned per hour worked.
The summary below (and yes be know its rather long, but it helps for those not wanting to or those who cant scroll through the graphic to identify particular sector and jobs) shows the hourly Rand value of earnings per industry and job type:
- Financial and business services: Activities auxiliary to financial intermediation: 371.4
- Transport and communcation: Sea and coastal water transport: 292.6
- Manufacturing: Coke oven products; petroleum refineries; processing of nuclear fuel : 292.2
- Electricity, gas and water: Electricity, gas, steam and water supply: 290.5
- Financial and business services: Financial intermediation (i.e. Banks) except insurance and pension funding: 260.9
- Financial and business services: Computer and related activities: 259.1
- Transport and communcation: Air transport: 237.7
- Financial and business services: Architectural, engineering and other technical activities: 233.1
- Financial and business services: Insurance and pension funding: 224.6
- Manufacturing: Motor vehicles: 202.6
- Financial and business services: Legal, accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities: 194.9
- Transport and communcation: Post and telecommunications: 187.5
- Financial and business services: Research and development: 185.8
- Manufacturing: Medical appliances and instruments and appliances for measuring, checking, testing, navigating and for other purposes, except optical instruments: 183.5
- Financial and business services: Advertising: 182.4
- Financial and business services: Real estate activities: 179.7
- Community and personal services: National departments: 176.5
- Manufacturing: Basic chemicals: 175.9
- Community and personal services: Health and social work: 168.9
- Manufacturing: Railway and tramway locomotives and rolling stock; aircraft and spacecraft: 168.8
- Community and personal services: Provincial departments: 166.1
- Manufacturing: General purpose machinery: 164.6
- Electricity, gas and water: Collection, purification and distribution of water: 164.2
- Manufacturing: Basic precious and non-ferrous metals: 163.5
- Community and personal services: Universities and technikons: 159.4
- Manufacturing: Radio, Television and communication equipment and apparatus and of media, precision and optical instruments, watches and clocks: 157.9
- Manufacturing: Special purpose machinery: 156.8
- Manufacturing: Basic iron and steel: 155.8
- Community and personal services: Activities of membership organisattion: 154.2
- Manufacturing: Office, accounting and computing machinery: 154
- Manufacturing: Other chemical products; man-made fibres: 151.3
- Manufacturing: Beverages and tobacco products: 151.1
- Mining: Non-gold: 150.4
- Trade: Wholesale trade: 149.9
- Manufacturing: Optical instruments and photographic equipment; watches and clocks: 146.8
- Transport and communcation: Supporting and auxilliary transport activities: 146.7
- Mining: Gold: 142.1
- Manufacturing: Publishing: 140.1
- Manufacturing: Rubber products: 139.1
- Manufacturing: Electronic valves and tubes and other electronic components; television and radio transmitters and apparatus for line telephony and line telegraphy: 136.7
- Transport and communcation: Land transport and transport via pipelines: 135.6
- Community and personal services: Local government: 135.3
- Manufacturing: Insulated wire and cable: 131.3
- Manufacturing: Paper and paper products: 131
- Community and personal services: Extra Budgetary institutions: 123.9
- Financial and business services: Renting of machinery and equipment, without operator and of personal and household goods: 119.1
- Manufacturing: Parts and accessories for motor vehicles and their engines: 118.2
- Community and personal services: Other educational institutions: 117.2
- Manufacturing: Accumulators, primary cells and primary batteries: 116.9
- Manufacturing: Glass and glass products: 113.9
- Community and personal services: Recerational, cultural and sporting activities: 113.7
- Manufacturing: Other electrical equipment n.e.c.: 113.5
- Manufacturing: Casting of metals: 113.2
- Manufacturing: Television and radio receivers, sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus and associated goods: 112.9
- Manufacturing: Electrical machinery and apparatus n.e.c.: 112.8
- Community and personal services: Other community, social and personal services: 112.4
- Manufacturing: Electric motors, generators and transformers : 111.3
- Manufacturing: Electric lamps and lighting equipment: 106.1
- Construction: Building installation: 105.1
- Manufacturing: Electricity distribution and control apparatus : 104.5
- Manufacturing: Structural metal products, tanks, reservoirs and steam generators: 104.4
- Manufacturing: Other fabricated metal products; metalwork service activities: 96.9
- Construction: Building of complete constructions or parts thereof, civil engineering: 96.5
- Manufacturing: Household appliances n.e.c: 95.6
- Manufacturing: Grain mill products, starches and starch products and prepared animal fat: 94.7
- Manufacturing: Other food products: 94.5
- Trade: Motor trade: 94.1
- Manufacturing: Building and repairing of ships and boats: 93.6
- Manufacturing: Printing and service activities related to printing; reproduction of recorded media: 88.5
- Manufacturing: Plastic products: 84.6
- Manufacturing: Non-metallic mineral products n.e.c: 83.9
- Construction: Renting of construction/demolition equipment with operators: 81.2
- Construction: Building completion: 79.3
- Manufacturing: Dairy products: 79
- Manufacturing: Bodies for motor vehicles, trailers, and semi-trailers: 78.8
- Manufacturing: Manufacturing n.e.c: 77.2
- Financial and business services: Business activities n.e.c.: 76.3
- Construction: Site preparation: 75.7
- Manufacturing: Transport equipment n.e.c: 67
- Manufacturing: Recycling n.e.c: 66.4
- Manufacturing: Other textiles: 65.4
- Manufacturing: Tanning and dressing of leather, luggage, handbags, saddlery and harness: 64.1
- Manufacturing: Furniture: 62.3
- Trade: Retail trade: 58.4
- Manufacturing: Preparation and spinning of textile fibres; weaving of textiles: 58.3
- Manufacturing: Products of wood, cork, straw and plaiting materials: 56.9
- Manufacturing: Production, processing and preservation of meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, oils and fats: 53.6
- Trade: Hotels and restaurants: 50.6
- Manufacturing: Footwear: 49.6
- Manufacturing: Wearing apparel, except fur;dressing and dying of fur, articles of fur: 49.2
- Community and personal services: Other service activities: 46.5
- Manufacturing: Knitted and crocheted fabrics and articles: 44.9
- Manufacturing: Sawmilling and planing of wood: 43.6