Pelt dressers, tanners and fellmongers mostly female

Inexperienced pelt dressers, tanners and fellmongers earn hourly wage between R23 and R52

Employees with 25 years of work experience earn the highest salary: between R8 877 and R24 481 per month. Employees earn between R23 and R52 per hour at the start of the career, having 1 year of work experience.

73% of the respondents are female, 27% are male. The age group for people in this job who answered the survey was mostly between 30 and 39 years of age. 40% of workers in this occupation state that they do not have any children.

On average, workers in this occupation work 40 hours per week.

43% of pelt dressers, tanners and fellmongers fewer than 5 years of work experience

37% of all participating workers work in a multinational organisation. 43% of employees state that they have no permanent contract for their job. 43% of employees have worked fewer than 5 years since their first job. Workers mostly work in organisations consisting of 500 or more people. 57% of workers state that they have a permanent contract for the work that they are doing. In most cases, workers report that the majority of their coworkers are female.

In the survey, 10% of the people in this job choose 'highly satisfied' as their job satisfaction level. In general, most employees are in between satisfied and dissatisfied with their position. This is the case for 32% of the employees.

Wage dissatisfaction high among pelt dressers, tanners and fellmongers

Among the employees, 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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