Highest salary early childhood educators at 25 years of experience: R11 607 to R22 248 per month

Salary for starting early childhood educators between R4 799 and R8 645 per month

Based on our survey, employees with 25 years of work experience earn the highest salary: between R11 607 and R22 248 per month. Starting people in this job with one year of experience, earn from R4 799 to R8 645 per month.

Early childhood educators mostly female

41% of employees state that they do not have any children. Of the respondents, 97% are female and 3% are male. The age group for workers in this occupation who answered the survey was mostly between 30 and 39 years of age.

Average working week of 40 hours

Workers work 40 hours per week on average.

61% of early childhood educators fewer than 5 years of work experience

24% of workers in this occupation state that they have no permanent contract for their job. 39% of all participating workers work in a multinational organisation. The majority of workers in this occupation work in organisations of 500 or more employees. In most cases, workers report that the majority of their coworkers are female. 61% of employees have worked fewer than 5 years since their first job. Workers who have a permanent contract for the work they are performing, add up to 76%.

The survey shows that 9% of the workers in this occupation feel highly dissatisfied about their position. In general, most workers are in between satisfied and dissatisfied with their position. This is the case for 31% of the workers.

Wage dissatisfaction high among early childhood educators

Of all surveyed workers, 28% feel in between satisfied and dissatisfied about their salary. Generally, 39% of the workers report they are dissatisfied with their salary.

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