{"id":15284,"date":"2022-03-31T11:22:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T09:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=15284"},"modified":"2022-03-31T11:22:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T09:22:10","slug":"part-time-job-gains-offset-full-time-job-losses-in-q4-formal-non-agricultural-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=15284","title":{"rendered":"Part-time job gains offset full-time job losses in Q4 formal non-agricultural sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jobs in the formal non-agricultural sector increased by 62 000 in the fourth quarter of 2021, bringing the total number of persons employed in the formal non-agricultural sector in South Africa to approximately 10,0 million. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?page_id=1854&amp;PPN=P0277&amp;SCH=72995\"><u>Quarterly Employment Statistics (QES, Q4:2021)<\/u><\/a> survey released by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), formal sector jobs increased by 154\u00a0000 year-on-year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/emp1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15285\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/emp1-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"emp1\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/emp1-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/emp1-768x524.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/emp1-1024x699.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/emp1-100x68.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/emp1.jpg 1056w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The report shows that part-time employment increased by 106 000 or 10,0% quarter-on-quarter, and by 166 000 or 16,5% year-on-year between December 2020 and December 2021, whilst full-time employment decreased by 44 000 or -0,5% quarter-on-quarter and by 12 000 or -0,1% over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>The increases in part-time employment were mainly due to job gains in the community services industry (54 000 or 10,9%), trade (29 000 or 14,3%), business services (14 000 or 6,6%), manufacturing (8 000 or 11,9%) and construction (3 000 or 4,5%), while the transport industry reported a decrease of 2 000 employees or -11,8%. According to the survey, decreases in full time employment were mainly in the construction industry (-23 000 or -4,6%), business services industry (-19 000 or -0,9%), community services industry (-9 000 or -0,4%), manufacturing industry (-7 000 or -0,6%), transport industry (-3 000 or -0,7%), mining (-1 000 or -0,2%) and electricity industry (-1 000 or -1,7%).<\/p>\n<p>The trade industry, however, reported an increase of 19 000 employees or 1,0%.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the total number of employees increased by 62 000 or (0,6%) quarter-on-quarter, from 9 953 000 in September 2021 to 10 015 000 in December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Total gross earnings paid to employees increased by R44,3 billion or (5,7%) from R783,0 billion in September 2021 to R827,3 billion in December 2021. This was largely due to increases in the following industries: trade, community services, manufacturing, business services, transport, construction and electricity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/emp2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15286\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/emp2-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"emp2\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/emp2-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/emp2-768x524.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/emp2-1024x699.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/emp2-100x68.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/emp2.jpg 1066w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, the mining industry reported a quarterly decrease.<\/p>\n<p>Year-on-year, total gross earnings increased by R51,7 billion or 6,7% between December 2020 and December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Basic salary\/wages paid to employees increased by R6,2 billion or 0,9% from R713,4 billion in September 2021 to R719,6 billion in December 2021. This was largely due to increases in the following industries: trade, business services, transport, manufacturing, electricity and community services.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, there were decreases in the construction and mining industries.<\/p>\n<p>Year-on-year, basic salary\/wages increased by R46,4 billion or 6,9% between December 2020 and December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus payments increased by R36,9 billion or 75,5% from R48,8 billion in September 2021 to R85,7 billion in December 2021. This was largely due to increases in the following industries: community services, manufacturing, trade, business services, transport, construction and electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Year-on-year, bonus payments increased by R2,8 billion or 3,4% between December 2020 and December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Overtime payments increased by R1,3 billion or 6,1% from R20,7 billion in September 2021 to R22,0 billion in December 2021. This was largely due to increases in the following industries: community services, manufacturing, trade, construction and transport.<\/p>\n<p>There were decreases in the following industries, however: business services and electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Year-on-year, overtime payments increased by R2,5 billion or (13,1%) between December 2020 and December 2021.<\/p>\n<p>A quarter-on-quarter increase of 0,3% was reported in average monthly earnings paid to employees in the formal non-agricultural sector from R23 908 in August 2021 to R23 982 in November 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Year-on-year, average monthly earnings increased by 3,9%.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed the link in the article, download the full report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?page_id=1854&amp;PPN=P0277&amp;SCH=72995\"><u>here.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jobs in the formal non-agricultural sector increased by 62 000 in the fourth quarter of 2021, bringing the total number of persons employed in the formal non-agricultural sector in South Africa to approximately 10,0 million. According to the Quarterly Employment Statistics (QES, Q4:2021) survey released by Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), formal sector jobs increased&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=15284\" 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":[30,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-growth","category-minerals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15284","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=15284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15287,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15284\/revisions\/15287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}