Minister of Cooperative Governance and Standard Affairs (Cogta) Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has actually revealed a wage freeze for leading local employees in South Africa.

In a federal government gazette released on Tuesday (2 November), Dlamini-Zuma stated that, after assessments with the appropriate authorities, it was chosen that a 0% expense of living change would be produced the various members of community councils for the 202o/2021 fiscal year.

This implies that the current earnings, < a href=" https://code4sa-aleph.s3.amazonaws.com/eb/1f/d6/eb1fd6d746f74408fb89665ed486390f35f69edb/government-gazette-za-vol-658-no-43246-dated-2020-04-24.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline%3B%20filename%3Dgovernment-gazette-za-vol-658-no-43246-dated-2020-04-24.pdf&response-content-type=application%2Fpdf&AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAINXPGA33RI4FGU4A&Expires=1635946299&Signature=IWEN4Q6mZt%2BYtUOjPLpKcQ81oHI%3D" target=" _ blank "rel= "noopener" >last upgraded in April 2020, will stay in impact.

It is approximated that there are more than 9,000 councillors in South Africa’s 278 towns. Nevertheless, the information listed below particularly refers to leading earners such as mayors, deputy mayor, speakers, mayoral committee members, executives of sub councils, and whips.

Under the present system, local employees are paid based upon a point system that aspects into its community earnings and the population that falls under the town.

< img src="https://thepanda.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/heres-how-much-mayors-and-other-top-municipal-workers-earn-in-south-africa_61816b11834df.png.webp"alt ="" width= "583" height=" 157" data-aspectratio=" 583/157" data-srcset= "https://businesstech.co.za/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Municipal-1.png 583w, https://businesstech.co.za/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Municipal-1-300x81.png 300w "/ >< img src="https://thepanda.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/heres-how-much-mayors-and-other-top-municipal-workers-earn-in-south-africa_61816b11d2b56.png.webp" alt ="" width=" 581 "height=" 155 "data-aspectratio =" 581/155" data-srcset=" https://businesstech.co.za/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Municipal-2.png 581w, https://businesstech.co.za/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Municipal-2-300x80.png 300w"/ > The amount of the variety of points assigned to a local council in regards to the above table identifies the grade of such local council as follows:< img src="https://thepanda.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/heres-how-much-mayors-and-other-top-municipal-workers-earn-in-south-africa_61816b125d7aa.png.webp" alt="" width=" 586" height=" 151" data-aspectratio=" 586/151" data-srcset=" https://businesstech.co.za/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Municipal-3.png 586w, https://businesstech.co.za/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Municipal-3-300x77.png 300w"/ > This table is then utilized to figure out the pay of mayors and other leading community employees consisting of the deputy mayor, speakers, mayoral committee members, executives of sub-councils, and whips. At the nation’s biggest and most populated towns, executive mayors can make as much as R1.4 million a year, while their deputies can make R1.1 million.

In the nation’s smaller sized towns this figure drops to R782,000 for executive mayors, and R632,025 for their deputies.< img src="https://thepanda.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/heres-how-much-mayors-and-other-top-municipal-workers-earn-in-south-africa_61816b12c1385.png.webp" alt="" width=" 593" height=" 316 "data-aspectratio=" 593/316" data-srcset= "https://businesstech.co.za/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Municipal-4.png 593w, https://businesstech.co.za/news/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Municipal-4-300x160.png 300w"/ > Other advantages In addition to their yearly salaries, leading local employees in South Africa can anticipate a variety of other advantages consisting of: Automobile and travel allowance– A councillor who utilizes a privately-owned car for the execution of main responsibilities on behalf of the town, might be compensated for main kilometres took a trip, in addition to the overall

reimbursement plan of a councillor. Expense costs– A councillor may, in addition to the overall compensation plan, be repaid for sensible

  • and real expense costs sustained throughout the execution of authorities or ritualistic tasks, in accordance with the suitable local council policy. Ceiling of mobile phone allowance for councillors– A councillor might be paid a mobile phone allowance not surpassing R3,400 monthly in accordance with
    • the relevant community council policy. Information packages– A councillor might be paid an allowance on making use of information packages not going beyond R300 each month. Unique threat cover– A town needs to get danger insurance coverage cover, to offer an insurance coverage cover, supplied to a councillor by the town, which covers
    • the loss of or damage to a councillor’s individual unmovable or portable residential or commercial property and possessions, omitting home utilized by such councillor for organization functions, in addition to life and special needs cover, for any
    • loss or damage triggered by riot, civil discontent, strike or public condition. The unique threat insurance coverage on house will be restricted to
    • R1.5 million while on lorries it is restricted to R750,000. The life and impairment insurance coverage cover is restricted to 2 times the overall compensation plan of a councillor.