26 Feb 2024
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Upholsterers with 0 years of work experience will earn between R4 573 and R10 054 per month. Per hour, people in this job with 0 years of experience earn between R23 and R52. This is made clear in research by Mywage.co.za, conducted in 2024.
Workers with 25 years of work experience earn the highest salary: between R8 877 and R24 481 per month. With 0 years of work experience, employees will earn R23 to R52 per hour.
Upholsterers mostly female
27% says they are male, while 73% entered female as their gender. 60% of employees have 1 child or more. The age group for people in this job who answered the survey was mostly between 30 and 39 years of age.
Average working week of 40 hours
Workers in this occupation work 40 hours per week on average.
Majority organisations employ 500 or more workers
43% of employees have worked fewer than 5 years since their first job. 37% of all participating workers work in a multinational organisation. 57% of employees state that they have a permanent contract for the work that they are doing. For most employees, the majority of their coworkers are female. The majority of people in this job work in organisations of 500 or more employees. 43% of workers state that they have no permanent contract for their job.
In the survey, 10% of the employees choose 'highly satisfied' as their job satisfaction level. On the whole, workers in this occupation feel in between satisfied and dissatisfied about their job. This feeling is shared by 32% of the workers in this occupation.
Among the people in this job, 33% reported they are dissatisfied with their wage. Generally, 42% of the employees report they are highly dissatisfied with their salary.
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