01 Nov 2023
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With 20 years of work experience, telecommunications engineers will earn from R51 772 to R93 955 monthly. Workers who do not have a permanent contract for the work they are performing, added up to 14% of respondents. This is made clear in research by Mywage.co.za, conducted in 2023.
Highest salary for telecommunications engineers with 25 years of experience: R47 842 to R97 176 per month
Employees with 25 years of work experience earn the highest salary: between R47 842 and R97 176 per month. Based on one year of work experience, starting employees who are new to their job will earn between R25 938 and R46 778 per month.
88% says they are male, while 12% entered female as their gender. Of the people in this job who participated in the survey, 62% have no children. Workers in this occupation who answered the survey are mostly between 30 and 39 years of age.
Average working week of 40 hours
Employees work 40 hours per week on average. According to our survey, coverage by collective bargaining among people in this job is set at 3%. 97% are not covered by a collective agreement.
40% of telecommunications engineers fewer than 5 years of work experience
Of the participating employees, 54% work in a multinational organisation. In most cases, workers report that the majority of their coworkers are male. The majority of workers work in organisations of 500 or more employees. 86% of people in this job state that they have a permanent contract for the work that they are doing. 40% of workers in this occupation have worked fewer than 5 years since their first job. 14% of people in this job state that they have no permanent contract for their job.
The survey shows that 9% of the workers in this occupation feel highly dissatisfied about their position. On the whole, people in this job feel satisfied about their job. This feeling is shared by 36% of the people in this job.
Of all surveyed workers, 28% feel in between satisfied and dissatisfied about their salary. 42% of the people in this job reports to be dissatisfied with their wage.
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