15 of the highest salaries in South Africa

Data from Career Junction provides an indication of how much one can expect to earn in 10 major sectors across the country, including the types of jobs that garner the highest salaries.

Based on its comprehensive jobs data, Business Tech looks at the jobs that pay the highest salaries at the top end.

Career Junction’s data showed that most of the top paying jobs are in the engineering sector, where a senior civil or structural engineer earns an average salary of R70,300 a month (or just over R843,610 a year).

Aside from engineers, other top-paying positions are commonly found in the Finance and ICT sectors, as well as within the medical field which was a new addition to the survey. The group’s data is in line with a post by Jobmail.co.za which found the following titles to be amongst the best paid:

• Architects, software engineers, accountants, petroleum engineers and computer and information systems managers.

Additional high paying jobs cited include lawyers, specialised doctors, air traffic controllers and airline pilots.

Jobmail.co.za finds that for airline pilots, while the average salary is R372,001 per year, qualified and experienced pilots can expect to earn a lot more.

For doctors, while the average general practitioner earns about R476,00 per year, this figure skyrockets as you specialise. A senior GP can earn as much as R732,00 per year.

Salaries for qualified lawyers in SA can go up to R655,000 per year. The more practice one has, the higher the salary.

These are the top paying jobs according to Career Junction:

Source businesstech.co.za