Salary starting sewing, embroidery R4 573 to R10 054 per month

Salary highly experienced sewing, embroidery between R8 899 and R24 212 per month

People in this job with 25 years of work experience earn the highest salary: between R8 877 and R24 481 per month. Seasoned employees, carrying 30 years of experience with them, earn a monthly wage that ranges from R8 899 to R24 212.

The age group for employees who answered the survey was mostly between 30 and 39 years of age. 60% of employees are parents of at least 1 child. 73% of the respondents are female, 27% are male.

Average working week of 40 hours

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

43% of sewing, embroidery fewer than 5 years of work experience

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

In the survey, 10% of the people in this job 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.

Wage dissatisfaction high among sewing, embroidery

Among the workers, 33% reported they are dissatisfied with their wage. 42% of the workers reports to be highly dissatisfied with their wage.

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