Highest salary education managers at 25 years of experience: R29 547 to R54 634 per month

Inexperienced education managers earn hourly wage between R65 and R145

Based on our survey, workers with 25 years of work experience earn the highest salary: between R29 547 and R54 634 per month. Workers starting out on the job, with 1 year of experience, can expect to earn between R65 and R145 per hour.

Of the respondents, 61% are female and 39% are male. The age group for workers in this occupation who answered the survey was mostly between 30 and 39 years of age. Of the people in this job who participated in the survey, 31% have no children.

Average working week of 41 hours

Employees work 41 hours per week on average. According to our survey, coverage by collective bargaining among workers is set at 3%. 97% are not covered by a collective agreement.

27% of education managers fewer than 5 years of work experience

92% of people in this job state that they have a permanent contract for the work that they are doing. Workers mostly work in organisations consisting of 500 or more people. 32% of all participating people in this job work in a multinational organisation. 8% of workers state that they have no permanent contract for their job. For most workers, the majority of their coworkers are female. 27% of people in this job have worked fewer than 5 years since their first job.

In the survey, 9% of the employees choose 'highly dissatisfied' as their job satisfaction level. On the whole, workers in this occupation feel satisfied about their job. This feeling is shared by 42% of the workers in this occupation.

Of all surveyed workers, 28% feel highly dissatisfied about their salary. Generally, 42% of the people in this job report they are dissatisfied with their salary.

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