How much you need to earn to be considered middle class in South Africa

[Kirsten Minnaar]

How much you need to earn to be considered middle class in South Africa

Estimates of what it means to be middle class in South Africa vary widely, ranging from as low as R5,000 to as much as R30,000 a month.

 

[Pegging]

Those numbers must be from around 1998

 

[FiestaST]

 

[Bad Ballie]

Why a whole article just to throw your arms in the air and say "I don't know" all I really get from this is that the middle class has been decimated to the point where, as predicted, the new middle class is in effect government employees (Police and military) who's only job is to protect the rich (politicians) from the everyone else.

 

[Pegging]

Why a whole article just to throw your arms in the air and say "I don't know" all I really get from this is that the middle class has been decimated to the point where, as predicted, the new middle class is in effect government employees (Police and military) who's only job is to protect the rich (politicians) from the everyone else.

My estimate for middle class would be R35,000–R75,000 pm, and upper middle class at R75,000–R150,000 pm.
That is household income.