EDITORIAL | No pay-rise worries for SA’s 55,000 millionaire civic servants
These salary bumps happened while most people’s pay failed to grow in line with the rising cost of living
02 November 2023 - 22:06
We know the following fact, thanks to Stats SA’s quarterly employment survey for the first quarter of this year: the average salary in South Africa is R25,304 a month, a 2.7% drop from the previous quarter. That’s R303,648 a year. ..
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