SA’s formal employment in the December quarter rose 18,000 from 2016’s
SA’s non-farm payrolls amounted to R662bn in the December quarter, a 3.8% increase from the matching period in 2016, according to Statistics SA’s quarterly employment survey released on Tuesday. The average monthly salary of formally employed South Africans grew by 6.8% to R20,004 in November from R18,723 in the same month in 2016. The December quarter tends to show a jump in employment from the September quarter thanks to shops hiring additional staff to handle the Christmas peak. The sector Stats SA terms "trade" employed 56,000 more people in the December quarter than in the September quarter, accounting for 70% of new jobs created. This took the total number of formally employed South Africans outside of agriculture to 9.8-million in December. However, compared to the December quarter of 2016, the formal job increase was a more modest 18,000. Of the eight sectors Stats SA divides its employment sector into, "community services" — essentially public-sector employees — accounts fo...
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