2.37 Individual monthly income amongst the employed by population group, aged 15 - 65 years*

 

African/ Black

Coloured

Indian/ Asian

White

Unspecified
/Other

Total

None

67,867

9,154

3,299

22,015

1,018

103,354

R1 - R200

636,718

56,697

5,762

28,561

3,991

731,729

R201 - R500

1,186,478

195,228

12,587

42,558

8,590

1,445,441

R501 - R1 000

1,293,717

216,618

39,445

76,298

11,248

1,637,326

R1 001 - R1 500

1,088,001

231,507

73,339

131,265

12,913

1,537,026

R1 501 - R2 500

667,021

180,879

76,952

253,713

11,944

1,190,508

R2 501 - R3 500

303,914

88,647

49,189

261,581

7,683

711,013

R3 501 - R4 500

154,853

48,656

30,908

228,432

5,309

468,158

R4 501 - R6 000

90,060

33,424

28,238

242,336

4,609

398,666

R6 001 - R8 000

34,873

12,595

13,771

160,617

2,256

224,111

R8 001 - R11 000

19,464

5,596

7,631

118,943

1,387

153,021

R11 001 - R16 000

9,406

2,335

3,857

74,709

719

91,026

R16 001 - R30 000

4,817

1,253

2,078

45,169

395

53,712

R30 001 or more

2,070

465

858

17,677

151

21,221

Unspecified

123,216

46,463

15,573

152,579

9,703

347,533

Total

5,682,476

1,129,515

363,486

1,856,452

81,917

9,113,847

* Excluding institutions

Income category among the employed by population group and gender – October 1996
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• Forty-eight percent of employed African women (lowest segment of the fifth column from the left) earn R500 or less per month, while 65% of white men earn more than R3 000 per month.