Hi, today we're going to be looking at radiographer salaries in South Africa. I'm Mani
Thandrayen, a medical doctor with more than 20 years of experience in the health care industry.
So let's get to it and look at diagnostic and specialist radiographers salaries in South Africa.
Today we're going to be looking at both the specialist and the diagnostic radiographer's
salary and career pathing available in the South African public sector. So let's look at the career
pathing for radiographers, we're going to be looking at the occupational specific dispensation
as radiographers are classified as diagnostic radiographers, specialist radiographers, policy
developers and program coordinators. According to the OSD classification so for a diagnostic
radiographer, you fall on the general stream and the general stream
broken up into a production level and a supervisory level. So the production level
is grade one, two and three and the supervisory level is chief, assistant director and deputy
director. For the specialist classification, that is, you either fall under nuclear medicine,
radiation oncology, ultrasound or mammography. So let's now look at the components of the
salary.The salaries with the following additional benefits: housing, sixteen thousand seven hundred
and eighty, with regards to medical aid, you can have between sixteen thousand eight hundred and
seventy-two to sixty four thousand six hundred and sixty-eight as a benefit, this depends on
the number of dependents, your birthday bonus for all is eight point three, three percent,
you can get a standby allowance and work overtime either paid or time off depends on the institute.
then you get the employer contribution to the pension fund which is 13% then you have a rural
allowance of 12 and 17 percent that depends on if the area is designated as a rural area you get
17 percent or if the area is designated as a PSCBC or bargaining chamber rural area or inhospitable
area, you get an allowance of 12. Let's look at the basic or notch, so we're going to compare this
to the diagnostic radiographer and the policy and program coordinators which I have discussed in my
previous episode, you can click on the link above to review the salaries of diagnostic and program
coordinators and the occupational specific dispensation classification as a diagnostic
radiographer. Grade 1, post community service, your salary is 317 976. After 10 years you move
on to grade 2 salary which is 372 810 and a grade 3 salary of 439 164 rands this is 20 years after
completing your community service. As a chief grade 1 salary your salary is 466 1118 and the
chief graduates 532 959 here after three years experience as a diagnostic radiographer you take
on a position of chief grade one and then this is a progression a pos,t means it's not advertised
you move on to grade two after eight years. As a specialist radiographer, your starting
salary is three hundred and ninety-five thousand seven hundred and three, if you compare this
to the diagnostic grade one it's about 80 000 rands more as a grade 2 specialist radiographer,
that is, either as a nuclear medicine radiation oncology, ultrasound or mammography you earn 466
and nineteen this is equivalent to a chief grade one salary of four hundred and sixty-six thousand
one hundred and ninety, as a grade three your salary is five hundred and forty-nine
thousand and sixty-six and it is slightly above a chief officer. a chief on a grade two level
but the last notch both as a specialist and a chief grade two is 591 about 591 000, so this goes
to show that being in a supervisory position as a diagnostic radiographer your salary is similar to
a specialist. The policy and program coordinators is is is is similar to the chief grade one and two
here after three years of experience you can take up a policy and program coordinated position
usually at district and head office. Let's now look at the net salary after pension
if you compare your basic to the net salary that's after pension and taking on a
birthday bonus a diagnostic radiographer earns 21 000 whilst a twenty-five thousand
five hundred a grade two diagnostic salary is almost twenty-five thousand and his specialist
is around twenty-nine thousand five hundred difference being again four thousand five hundred.
At a grade 3 the salary is 28 000 as a diagnostic and specialist is 33 500. If you notice the
specialist and the chief grade 1 and 2 are at a similar level with a rural or inhospitable
allowance your net salary increases from between 2000 to about 6000 as a grade 3 on the specialist
level. Let's look at the career options as both as a diagnostic and a specialist radiographer,
You can take up a position in the public sector as a production or in a managerial role in the
private clinics or hospitals as well you can work for the South African national defence force, you
can work for mining hospitals, you can work in a private radiological practice or specialized unit
as such as angiography computer tomography etc you can also take up a university teaching post
be a medical rep, representative, marketing the equipment and finally you can establish your own
private practice. Thank you for joining me today looking at diagnostic and specialist
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