Greater details regarding the funding of higher education institutions and the payment of their employees in South Africa
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Category: Higher Education in South Africa and Compensation of Employees
Date: 28 October 2021 In this article we take a more detailed look at the compensation of employees (payments/salaries) of staff employed in higher education institutions in South Africa. Ever wondered which university spends the most on salaries, or which university receives the most in terms of tuition fees?
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Tuition fees earned by higher education institutions in South Africa during 2020
The summary below shows the tuition fees earned by the higher education institutions in South Africa during the 2020 fiscal year (sorted from highest tuition earner to lowest tuition earner)
- Unisa R 3 862 000 000
- Pretoria R 2 270 000 000
- Wits R 1 885 000 000
- Johannesburg R 1 845 000 000
- North West R 1 812 000 000
- KwaZulu-Natal R 1 762 000 000
- Cape Town R 1 557 000 000
- Free State R 1 359 000 000
- Stellenbosch R 1 312 000 000
- Walter Sisulu R 1 280 000 000
- Durban R 1 244 000 000
- Cape Peninsula R 1 143 000 000
- Tshwane R 943 000 000
- Nelson Mandela R 928 000 000
- Vaal R 706 000 000
- Western Cape R 694 000 000
- Limpopo R 672 000 000
- Rhodes R 600 000 000
- Fort Hare R 552 000 000
- Mangosuthu R 433 000 000
- Venda R 425 000 000
- Zululand R 421 000 000
- Sefako Makgatho R 294 000 000
- Central R 210 000 000
- Mpumalanga R 150 000 000
- Sol Plaatje R 112 000 000
Compensation of employees as a ratio of total tuition fees
The summary below shows the compensation of employees as a ratio of tuition fees earned for each higher education institution. A ratio of 1 shows compensation of employees for the higher education institution is equal to the tuition fees received for the financial year. A ratio of greater than one shows the higher education institution spent more on compensation of employees than the tuition fees they received.
From the above it is pretty clear that most higher education institutions do not earn enough in tuition fees to pay their staff, and if it wasn't for grants and other receipts these institutions will never be able to stay afloat. As their current income from tuition is not nearly enough just to cover compensation of employees. Then expenses such as services and goods used, maintenance and repairs of buildings and grounds etc still has to be made. It shows what dire situation higher education institutions in South Africa are in.
- Central: 2.87
- Tshwane: 2.85
- Sefako Makgatho: 2.60
- Cape Town: 2.43
- Sol Plaatje: 2.20
- Stellenbosch: 2.11
- Mpumalanga: 1.96
- Western Cape: 1.95
- Venda: 1.74
- Wits: 1.73
- Pretoria: 1.73
- Nelson Mandela: 1.59
- Limpopo: 1.58
- Johannesburg: 1.56
- Zululand: 1.49
- KwaZulu-Natal: 1.47
- Unisa: 1.44
- Cape Peninsula: 1.42
- North West: 1.39
- Rhodes: 1.34
- Vaal: 1.30
- Free State: 1.25
- Fort Hare: 1.22
- Mangosuthu: 1.07
- Durban :0.95
- Walter Sisulu: 0.94
From the above it is pretty clear that most higher education institutions do not earn enough in tuition fees to pay their staff, and if it wasn't for grants and other receipts these institutions will never be able to stay afloat. As their current income from tuition is not nearly enough just to cover compensation of employees. Then expenses such as services and goods used, maintenance and repairs of buildings and grounds etc still has to be made. It shows what dire situation higher education institutions in South Africa are in.