26 Jun 2023
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With 30 years of work experience, university and higher education teachers will earn from R26 607 to R69 971 monthly. Of the employees who participated in the survey, 41% have no children. This is the conclusion of research carried out by Mywage.co.za, in 2023.
Workers with 25 years of work experience earn the highest salary: between R31 934 and R71 960 per month. Veteran people in this job with 30 years worth of experience can earn an hourly wage between R137 and R359 per hour.
University and higher education teachers mostly female
Of the respondents, 61% are female and 39% are male. 59% of people in this job are parents of at least 1 child. Workers who answered the survey are mostly between 30 and 39 years of age.
Average working week of 40 hours
On average, workers work 40 hours per week. Coverage by collective bargaining amongst people in this job is 3%, while 97% are not covered by a collective agreement, according to our survey.
56% of university and higher education teachers fewer than 5 years of work experience
32% of all participating people in this job work in a multinational organisation. Since starting their first job, 56% of workers have worked fewer than 5 years. Workers in this occupation who do not have a permanent contract for the work they are performing, added up to 32% of respondents. 68% of workers 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. In most cases, workers report that the majority of their coworkers are female.
In the survey, 9% of the workers in this occupation choose 'highly dissatisfied' as their job satisfaction level. In general, most workers in this occupation are in between satisfied and dissatisfied with their position. This is the case for 31% of the workers in this occupation.
Wage dissatisfaction high among university and higher education teachers
Of all surveyed workers, 30% feel in between satisfied and dissatisfied about their salary. 40% of the employees reports to be dissatisfied with their wage.
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