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  • Female employees earn 25% less than men in South Africa
  • Their median monthly earnings in 2022 were R1,200 lower than men’s
  • Women’s median earnings were R800 higher than the minimum wage

The median earnings of female employees in 2022 was R4,800 a month, 25% lower than R6,000 median for men.

There were 13-million employees in SA in 2022 – people who ‘work for an employer and receive payment’. Their median monthly earnings were R5,417 a month, according to a new Statistics SA report. Of those employees, 7.5-million were male with half earning less than R6,000 a month and half earning more than that. Of the 6-million female employees, half earned more than R4,800 and half earned less.

Women’s median earnings were slightly above the national minimum wage, which was about R4,000 a month in 2022 (based on working eight hours a day for 22 days). The average food basket for a low-income family cost R4,853.18 in December 2022, according to the Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice & Dignity Group.

— 28 November, 2024

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