{"id":236470,"date":"2026-06-30T01:55:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T01:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=236470"},"modified":"2026-06-30T01:55:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T01:55:01","slug":"real-sa-salaries-hit-two-year-low-as-inflation-outpaces-wage-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=236470","title":{"rendered":"Real SA salaries hit two-year low as inflation outpaces wage growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; South African salaries are rising, but not fast enough to keep up with inflation, pushing real earnings to a two-year low. The latest PayInc Net Salary Index shows take-home pay rose slightly to just over R21,500 in May. But it has failed to keep pace with inflation, leaving consumers worse off in real<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/business\/real-sa-salaries-hit-two-year-low-inflation-outpaces-wage-growth\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG &#8211; South African salaries are rising, but not fast enough to keep up with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236470-real-sa-salaries-hit-two-year-low-as-inflation-outpaces-wage-growth.webp",480,320,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236470-real-sa-salaries-hit-two-year-low-as-inflation-outpaces-wage-growth-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236470-real-sa-salaries-hit-two-year-low-as-inflation-outpaces-wage-growth-300x200.webp",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236470-real-sa-salaries-hit-two-year-low-as-inflation-outpaces-wage-growth.webp",480,320,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236470-real-sa-salaries-hit-two-year-low-as-inflation-outpaces-wage-growth.webp",480,320,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236470-real-sa-salaries-hit-two-year-low-as-inflation-outpaces-wage-growth.webp",480,320,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236470-real-sa-salaries-hit-two-year-low-as-inflation-outpaces-wage-growth.webp",480,320,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236470-real-sa-salaries-hit-two-year-low-as-inflation-outpaces-wage-growth.webp",480,320,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236470-real-sa-salaries-hit-two-year-low-as-inflation-outpaces-wage-growth.webp",480,320,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236470-real-sa-salaries-hit-two-year-low-as-inflation-outpaces-wage-growth.webp",480,320,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/236471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}