Salary data for country: South Africa
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Information Technology

Programmer

Gross salary in South Africa is
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80% of people earn:
19K - 79K ZAR
10% earn less lthan 19K ZAR
10% earns more than 79K ZAR

Salaries in the survey are expressed in gross.

Based on the Paylab.com salary survey, 80% of people on the Programmer position in the South Africa earn between 18,966 ZAR and 78,678 ZAR monthly gross.

10% of employees earn less than 18,966 ZAR and 10% of people earn more than 78,678 ZAR.

The survey is based on data from employees, cleaned of extreme and duplicate values.

Description of job position

  • Developing computer applications, mobile phone applications, and websites in various programming languages.
  • Analysis of customer requirements, assessment of potential risks and related technical issues.
  • Participation in the creation of technical specifications.
  • Turning over completed work to a client or tester for testing purposes.
  • Determining and correcting functional and security errors in source code.
  • Turning over completed software applications to clients, project managers, etc.
  • Providing technical support to clients.

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Position Programmer - Information Technology in the labour market

In the salary ranking,
the job position takes

66. place

Women representation in position

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Average age of respondent by position

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812. place

Receptionist

Administration

Salary group 1

7,936 - 16,297 ZAR

67. place

Account Director

Management

Salary group 2

18,990 - 78,399 ZAR

66. place

Programmer

Information Technology

Salary group 2

18,966 - 78,678 ZAR

65. place

Risk Manager

Management

Salary group 2

25,149 - 70,201 ZAR

1. place

IT Architect

Information Technology

Salary group 3

36,302 - 168,377 ZAR

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