Shop keepers mostly female

Salary for starting shop keepers between R5 598 and R11 214 per month

Based on our survey, employees with 30 years of work experience earn the highest salary: between R8 269 and R21 987 per month. Employees who are new to the job, will earn between R5 598 and R11 214 per month, based on one year of work experience.

Shop keepers mostly female

62% of employees have 1 child or more. Among the employees who share information on their wages and working conditions, most are female. 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 42 hours

On average, employees work 42 hours per week. Coverage by collective bargaining amongst people in this job is 2%, while 98% are not covered by a collective agreement, according to our survey.

Coworkers mostly female

Of the participating workers in this occupation, 18% work in a multinational organisation. Workers mostly work in organisations consisting of 500 or more people. 47% of workers in this occupation have worked fewer than 5 years since their first job. For most workers, the majority of their coworkers are female. People in this job who have a permanent contract for the work they are performing, add up to 71%. 29% of people in this job state that they have no permanent contract for their job.

In the survey, 12% of the people in this job 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 35% of the workers.

Wage dissatisfaction high among shop keepers

Among the employees, 37% reported they are highly dissatisfied with their wage. 40% of the people in this job reports to be dissatisfied with their wage.

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