{"id":11843,"date":"2018-12-11T12:47:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T10:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=11843"},"modified":"2018-12-11T12:47:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T10:47:22","slug":"11843","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=11843","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Media Release\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 11 December 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">\nQUARTERLY EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS<\/h2>\n<p>The results of the Quarterly employment survey (QES) for the third quarter of 2018 show a decrease of 16 000 jobs (or -0.2%) to 9 733 000 in the formal non-agricultural sector in the quarter ended in September 2018. This is a gain of 17 000 (or 0.2%) jobs when compared to the same period last year (September 2017). Quarterly employment decreases were mainly driven by manufacturing industry with 7\u00a0000 jobs (or -0.6%), construction industry with 5 000 jobs (or -0.8%). Other job losses were also observed in the mining industry with 2\u00a0000 jobs (or -0.4%), trade industry with 2 000 jobs (or -0.1%), transport industry with 1\u00a0000 (or -0.2%) and community services industry with 1\u00a0000 (or 0.0%). These latest QES figures were released by Statistics South Africa today.<\/p>\n<p>However, there were job gains in employment observed in the business services industry with 2\u00a0000 (or 0.1%). Electricity industry remained unchanged in the quarter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gross earnings and average monthly earnings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Total earnings paid to employees increased by R26 billion (or 4.2%) to R653 billion in September 2018. However, this is R35 billion (or 5.6%) higher compared to the same period of last year (September 2017). The increase in gross earnings was led by community services industry with R15 billion (or 7.4%) quarter-to-quarter. The quarterly increase was followed by business services industry with R7,8 billion, mining industry with R1,8 billion, trade industry with R796 million, manufacturing industry with R711 million, electricity industry with R92 million and transport industry with R74 million.<\/p>\n<p>There was however a decrease in gross earnings in the construction industry with R392 million.<\/p>\n<p>There was a quarter-on-quarter increase of 3.5% in average monthly earnings paid to employees in the formal non-agricultural sector from R20\u00a0163 in May 2018 to R20\u00a0860 in August 2018. Year-on-year average monthly earnings paid to employees increased by 5.0% from R19\u00a0865 in August 2017 to R20 860 in August 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Issued by Statistics South Africa <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For technical enquires contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ms Gwen Lehloenya<\/p>\n<p>Acting Deputy Director-General: Population and Social Statistics<\/p>\n<p>Tel: 012 310 8333<\/p>\n<p>Email: GwenL@statssa.gov.za<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Malerato Mosiane<\/p>\n<p>Acting Chief Director: Labour Statistics<\/p>\n<p>Tel:\u00a0 012 310 8688<\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:Maleratom@statssa.gov.za\">Maleratom@statssa.gov.za<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For media enquiries contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lesedi Dibakwane<\/p>\n<p>Director: Media and Public Relations<\/p>\n<p>(012) 310 8578<\/p>\n<p>082 805 7088<\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:Lesedid@statssa.gov.za\">Lesedid@statssa.gov.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Release\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 11 December 2018 QUARTERLY EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS The results of the Quarterly employment survey (QES) for the third quarter of 2018 show a decrease of 16&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=11843\" class=\"btn btn-mini btn-info pull-right\" style=\"margin:10px 30px;\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-statements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11845,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11843\/revisions\/11845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}