IT salaries in SA: What should you earn?

Rudolph Muller

Rudolph Muller is the editor at MyBroadband and covers telecoms and broadband news. Rudolph comes from an academic background, but left the University of...

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CareerJunction recently released their CareerJunction Index (CJI) Report for July 2011, showing that a steady increase in job advertising is evident within the Information Technology industry from May to July 2011.

This positive employment trend in the South African IT sector is likely to result in increased salaries for IT professionals after a period which did not see significant salary growth.

Current IT salaries

There are numerous reports which give an overview of IT salaries in South Africa, and one such service is JobCrystal’s Salary Data service.

JobCrystal is an online career management service and uses data from their 200,000 registered candidates to benchmark IT salaries in South Africa.

According to the company, they launch their salary data service to give companies and job seekers a better idea of real-world salaries and benchmark their salary against that of their peers.

All the salaries are given as monthly salaries and they reflect Cost-to-Company (CTC) figures.

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