Salary changes for mayors, speakers and other top officials in South Africa – here’s how much they get paid

Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, has made amendments to the salary tables for mayors, speakers and mayoral executive council members in South Africa.

In a gazette published this week, Dlamini-Zuma made changes to the upper limits of salaries for these top government officials and added allowable limits for cellphone bills covered for part-time councillors.

Under the current system, municipal workers are paid based on a point system that factors into its municipal income and the population that falls under the municipality.

The sum of the number of points allocated to a municipal council in terms of the above table determines the grade of such municipal council as follows:

This table is then used to determine the pay of mayors and other top municipal workers, including the deputy mayor, speakers, mayoral committee members, executives of sub-councils, and whips.

The table below outlines how much these government officials