The Department of Communications (DoC) released their 2010/2011 annual report recently, providing information about the performance of the department over the reporting period.

In its annual report the DoC provided the average salaries of employees in terms of programme and salary bands.

According to the communications department this information provides “an indication of the amount spent on personnel costs in terms of each of the programmes or salary bands within the department”.

The DoC revealed that the average salary of its employees typically range between R400,000 and R700,000 per year.

The following tables provide an overview of the DoC’s yearly personnel costs by programme and salary bands.

Programme Average personnel cost per employee Governance and Administration R392,670 ICT International Affairs and Trade R559,720 ICT Policy Development R668,020 Finance and ICT Enterprise Development R605,860 ICT Infrastructure Development R490,700 Presidential National Commission R429,300 Total (average) R475,300

Programme Average personnel cost per employee Skilled (Levels 3-5) R189,176 Highly skilled production (Levels6-8) R252,049 Highly skilled supervision (Levels9-12) R427,355 Senior management (Levels13-16) R792,776 Contract (Levels 3-5) R87,000 Contract (Levels 6-8) R300,000 Contract (Levels 9-12) R241,000 Contract (Levels 13-16) R869,625 Abnormal Appointment (Interns) R6,651 Total (average) R416,909

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