Production

Machine Operator

Gross salary in South Africa is

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80% of people earn:

14K - 28K ZAR

10% earn less lthan 14K ZAR

10% earns more than 28K ZAR

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What does the data in the graph mean?

Salaries in the survey are expressed in gross.

Based on the Paylab.com salary survey, 80% of people on the Machine Operator position in the South Africa earn between 13,501 ZAR and 27,525 ZAR monthly gross.

10% of employees earn less than 13,501 ZAR and 10% of people earn more than 27,525 ZAR.

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

Description of job position

Operating and monitoring the operation of one or more pieces of equipment on the production line.
Adding materials to pieces of equipment as needed and removing such materials if there is any excess.
Checking the in-process and finished products using measurement instruments.
Halting the production line operation in case of insufficient quality products.
Producing finished products, finishing in-process products.

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Position Machine Operator - Production in the labour market

In the salary ranking,
the job position takes

677. place

Women representation in position

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Average age of respondent by position

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812. place

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678. place

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676. place

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1. place

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