ENGINEERS & TECHNICIANS / SALARY
CAPE TOWN

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AVERAGE SALARY / YEAR

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Net (after tax)

18.3 ZAR = 1 USD

847,964 ZAR

$46,349 USD

Johannesburg

979,378 ZAR

493,970 ZAR

$27,000 USD

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Average Salary / Engineers & Technicians / Cape Town

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Average salary for Engineers & Technicians / Cape Town is 847,964 ZAR per year. The most typical earning is 493,970 ZAR. All data are based on 57 salary surveys. Salaries are different between men and women. Men receive an average salary of 801,329 ZAR. Women receive a salary of 289,064 ZAR.

Based on education, the highest salaries receive people with Doctorate Degree with salary of 2,081,993 ZAR. The second most paid education level is Masters Degree with salary of 1,125,154 ZAR.

Different experiences affect earning as well. People with 16-20 Years of experience receive salary of 1,485,570 ZAR. Employees with 20+ Years of experience receive 1,167,233 ZAR.

Levels / Engineers & Technicians / Cape Town (Gross ZAR)

Salary Levels (ZAR) per Year	Surveys	[%]
54,900 ZAR - 91,499 ZAR	0	n/a
91,500 ZAR - 182,899 ZAR	1	100% 1.75%
183,000 ZAR - 274,399 ZAR	1	98.25% 1.75%
274,400 ZAR - 365,899 ZAR	6	96.49% 10.53%
365,900 ZAR - 457,399 ZAR	7	85.96% 12.28%
THE MOST TYPICAL SALARY
457,400 ZAR - 548,799 ZAR	10	73.68% 17.54%
548,900 ZAR - 640,299 ZAR	8	56.14% 14.04%
640,300 ZAR - 731,799 ZAR	2	42.11% 3.51%
731,800 ZAR - 823,299 ZAR	1	38.6% 1.75%
823,300 ZAR - 914,699 ZAR	3	36.84% 5.26%
914,800 ZAR - 1,006,199 ZAR	4	31.58% 7.02%
1,006,200 ZAR - 1,097,699 ZAR	0	n/a
1,097,700 ZAR - 1,189,199 ZAR	2	24.56% 3.51%
1,189,200 ZAR - 1,280,599 ZAR	2	21.05% 3.51%
1,280,700 ZAR - 1,372,099 ZAR	2	17.54% 3.51%
1,372,100 ZAR - 1,463,599 ZAR	1	14.04% 1.75%
1,463,600 ZAR - 1,555,099 ZAR	0	n/a
1,555,100 ZAR - 1,646,499 ZAR	1	12.28% 1.75%
1,646,600 ZAR - 1,737,999 ZAR	2	10.53% 3.51%
1,738,000 ZAR - 1,829,499 ZAR	0	n/a
1,829,500 ZAR - 1,920,999 ZAR	0	n/a
1,921,000 ZAR - 2,012,499 ZAR	0	n/a
2,012,500 ZAR - 2,103,899 ZAR	1	7.02% 1.75%
2,103,900 ZAR - 2,195,399 ZAR	0	n/a
2,195,400 ZAR - 2,286,899 ZAR	1	5.26% 1.75%
2,286,900 ZAR - 2,378,399 ZAR	0	n/a
2,378,400 ZAR - 2,469,799 ZAR	0	n/a
2,469,900 ZAR - 2,561,299 ZAR	0	n/a
2,561,300 ZAR - 2,652,799 ZAR	0	n/a
2,652,800 ZAR - 2,744,299 ZAR	0	n/a
HIGH SALARIES
2,744,300 ZAR - 2,927,199 ZAR	1	3.51% 1.75%
2,927,200 ZAR - 3,110,199 ZAR	0	n/a
3,110,200 ZAR - 3,293,099 ZAR	0	n/a
3,293,100 ZAR - 3,476,099 ZAR	0	n/a
3,476,100 ZAR - 3,658,999 ZAR	0	n/a
3,659,000 ZAR - 3,841,999 ZAR	0	n/a
3,842,000 ZAR - 4,024,899 ZAR	0	n/a
4,024,900 ZAR - 4,207,899 ZAR	1	1.75% 1.75%
4,207,900 ZAR - 4,390,799 ZAR	0	n/a
4,390,800 ZAR - 4,573,799 ZAR	0	n/a
4,573,800 ZAR - 6,403,299 ZAR	0	n/a

Gender / Engineers & Technicians / Cape Town (Gross ZAR)

#		Surveys		AVERAGE SALARY / YEAR
1	Men	43	801,329 ZAR
2	Women	3	289,064 ZAR

Education / Engineers & Technicians / Cape Town (Gross ZAR)

#		Surveys
1	Doctorate Degree	3	2,081,993 ZAR
2	Masters Degree	7	1,125,154 ZAR
3	Bachelors Degree	25	814,136 ZAR
4	Some College	20	647,650 ZAR
5	High School	2	459,209 ZAR

Experience / Engineers & Technicians / Cape Town (Gross ZAR)

#		Surveys
1	16-20 Years	7	1,485,570 ZAR
2	20+ Years	9	1,167,233 ZAR
3	12-16 Years	6	995,258 ZAR
4	8-12 Years	8	918,419 ZAR
5	4-8 Years	14	614,718 ZAR
6	2-4 Years	3	515,924 ZAR
7	1-2 Years	5	428,107 ZAR
8	0-1 Year	5	364,074 ZAR

Age / Engineers & Technicians / Cape Town (Gross ZAR)

#		Surveys
1	51-55	2	1,818,542 ZAR
2	61-65	2	1,467,275 ZAR
3	41-45	2	1,273,345 ZAR
4	n/a	11	1,181,869 ZAR
5	46-50	4	828,772 ZAR
6	31-35	16	815,965 ZAR
7	36-40	6	612,889 ZAR
8	26-30	9	497,629 ZAR
9	21-25	5	334,802 ZAR

Work Type / Engineers & Technicians / Cape Town (Gross ZAR)

#		Surveys
1	Contract	4	1,245,903 ZAR
2	Permanent	50	832,431 ZAR
3	Self Employed	2	665,945 ZAR
4	Part Time	1	397,005 ZAR

Careers / Engineers & Technicians / Cape Town (Gross ZAR)

#		Surveys
1	Research Engineer	1	2,014,301 ZAR
2	Electrical Engineer Lead	3	1,527,649 ZAR
3	Engineering Manager	5	1,298,959 ZAR
4	Metal Engineer Lead	1	1,141,620 ZAR
5	Mechanical Engineer Lead	2	1,086,734 ZAR
6	Mechanical Engineer	7	1,035,508 ZAR
7	AutoCAD	4	863,533 ZAR
8	Engineer	12	761,080 ZAR
9	Electrical Engineer	6	689,729 ZAR
10	Mechanical Technician Lead	2	601,912 ZAR
11	Technical Manager	2	548,856 ZAR
12	Mechanical Technician	2	537,878 ZAR
13	Electrical Technician	4	462,868 ZAR
14	Technician	6	453,720 ZAR

People's individual salary examples (surveys)

Field Application Engineer

Posted 14 July 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Hardware design
Embedded design
CAD
project management."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Masters Degree	1-2 Years	Advanced	499,700 ZAR

Manager

Posted 01 November 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Design, supermvision."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Masters Degree	12-16 Years	Advanced	836,400 ZAR

Industrial Engineer

Posted 02 May 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Continuous improvement. Work measurement."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Bachelors Degree	1-2 Years	n/a	220,700 ZAR

Biomedical Engineer

Posted 14 April 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Repairing and maintaining medical and laboratory equipment."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Some College	4-8 Years	n/a	426,800 ZAR

Research And Development

Posted 21 January 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Research and Development."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Bachelors Degree	0-1 Year	n/a	294,300 ZAR

Structural Engineer

Posted 30 July 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Conceptual and detailed designs
Design calculations
Drawing production
Site inspections
Compiling specifications
Compiling Bill of Quantities."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	634,000 ZAR

Senior Project Engineer

Posted 30 June 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Manage a team of Electrical Design and Software engineers, as well as a team of draughtsman. 

Support and approve drawings and designs for large projects (upwards of R30Mil)."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	946,200 ZAR

Instrumentation Technician

Posted 24 June 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Perform routine maintenance and faultfinding on nuclear control and instrumentation."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Some College	8-12 Years	n/a	946,200 ZAR

Radar System Engineer

Posted 16 May 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Design develop and test radar systems."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Bachelors Degree	20+ Years	n/a	1,351,800 ZAR

Workshop Foreman

Posted 13 May 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"–	Overseeing and delegating workshop projects. 
–	Set maintenance procedures where needed. 
–	Identify short comings and implement corrective actions. 
–	Planning and schedule to reach milestones. 
–	Field services and repairs of cranes."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Some College	16-20 Years	n/a	389,300 ZAR

Maintenance Manager

Posted 21 February 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Maintenance Reliability and Asset Care with Failure Analysis
Lean Manufacturing Techniques: (Fishbone and 5 Whys)
CAPEX / Budget forecasting, implementation and reporting
Implementing preventative/predictive/corrective maintenance programs and providing training to increase equipment availability, increase net operating rate, reduce operation losses and achieve acceptable production rates."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Some College	20+ Years	n/a	913,800 ZAR

Mechanical Draughtman

Posted 27 January 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Design tooling for manufacturing."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Some College	8-12 Years	n/a	1,189,600 ZAR

Mechatronic Engineer

Posted 27 January 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"C++ Programming. C# Programming. Javascript."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Bachelors Degree	0-1 Year	n/a	292,000 ZAR

Development Engineer

Posted 23 January 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Hardware development engineer, RF and Microwave. Telecoms and avionics."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Some College	20+ Years	n/a	946,200 ZAR

Software Engineer

Posted 07 January 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Lead Front end software developer and full stack developer."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	594,800 ZAR

Associate

Posted 05 January 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Design electrical systems."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Bachelors Degree	12-16 Years	n/a	1,149,000 ZAR

Mechanical Design Engineer

Posted 03 January 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Design
Research and Development."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	596,800 ZAR

Engineer

Posted 16 November 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Engineering and proposals management."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Masters Degree	16-20 Years	n/a	2,760,100 ZAR

Food Technician

Posted 18 July 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Food technician and quality controller."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	355,700 ZAR

Industrial Engineer

Posted 17 April 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Product development, project management, production planning, lean manufacturing, layout design, training, capacity planning, lean manufacturing, continous improvement, process engineering, value stream mapping, process design, system design."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	460,000 ZAR

Industrial Engineer

Posted 17 April 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Product development, project management, production planning, lean manufacturing, layout design, training, capacity planning, lean manufacturing, continous improvement, process engineering, value stream mapping, process design, system design."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	460,000 ZAR

Associate

Posted 02 January 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Electrical and Electronic Engineering consultancy professional services."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Bachelors Degree	20+ Years	n/a	2,284,700 ZAR

Control Instrumentation

Posted 29 October 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"Scada plc hmi design and development."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Some College	1-2 Years	n/a	481,400 ZAR

Control Instrumentation

Posted 29 October 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"Scada plc hmi design and development."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Some College	1-2 Years	n/a	481,400 ZAR

Technician

Posted 05 September 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"Fix Machines
Repair MACHINES
Fix Machines."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	High School	4-8 Years	n/a	495,200 ZAR

Software And Electrical

Posted 04 September 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"Development of electrical systems for catalysis test units. Development of software and control systems of catalysis test units."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Cape Town	Masters Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	577,700 ZAR

ENGINEERS & TECHNICIANS / SALARY CAPE TOWN

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847,964 ZAR

979,378 ZAR

493,970 ZAR

Average Salary / Engineers & Technicians / Cape Town

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People's individual salary examples (surveys)

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