Majority prison guards satisfied with job

Salary for starting prison guards between R4 787 and R8 817 per month

Based on our survey, people in this job with 30 years of work experience earn the highest salary: between R6 728 and R17 275 per month. Starting workers in this occupation with one year of experience, earn from R4 787 to R8 817 per month.

The age group for people in this job who answered the survey was mostly between 30 and 39 years of age. Based on the survey results, most employees are male. 65% of employees are parents of at least 1 child.

Average working week of 42 hours

On average, workers work 42 hours per week. Coverage by collective bargaining amongst workers is 6%, while 94% are not covered by a collective agreement, according to our survey.

56% of prison guards fewer than 5 years of work experience

36% of all participating employees work in a multinational organisation. Since starting their first job, 56% of workers in this occupation have worked fewer than 5 years. Workers who do not have a permanent contract for the work they are performing, added up to 25% of respondents. In most cases, people in this job report that the majority of their coworkers are male. Employees mostly work in organisations consisting of 500 or more people. People in this job who have a permanent contract for the work they are performing, add up to 75%.

In the survey, 11% of the employees choose 'highly satisfied' as their job satisfaction level. On the whole, workers feel in between satisfied and dissatisfied about their job. This feeling is shared by 33% of the workers.

Of all surveyed workers in this occupation, 31% feel dissatisfied about their salary. 43% of the employees reports to be in between satisfied and dissatisfied with their wage.

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