How much money does an average employee in Africa earn?

Answer 1

Well in South Africa, a blue collar job (unskilled labour) will get you about R1 000 - R3 000 a month. An accountant on the other hand get about R50 000 a month. This is beginning 2008

Another answer

The range of employment options in a given country in Africa, let alone the whole continent, is broad almost beyond summarization. Street vendors who are regularly employed (they're out there every day) can earn as little as pennies a day in, say, Mogadishu, Somalia. Executives in a corporate structure like, say, De Beers Societe Anonyme (or DBSA, which is the organization that has the overall management responsibilities for all the various arms of the privately held De Beers diamond conglomerate) make Megadollars a year. Many countries in Africa have a per capita annual income of something in the range of $500. Is $500 a year a good income, even in a place where the dollar "goes a little farther" than in a first world country?

At the risk of going a bit off-topic, consider this. In general, Africa is a continent comprised of a group of countries that have problems almost beyond comprehension. Their difficulties affect them individually and as a collective. Drought, possibly due to climate change, is pressing on many areas of the land. And it's getting worse. It isn't so much that some people starve to death but that vast numbers of human beings die of starvation because of famine. Every day. Right now. Some 38 million souls live in the shadow of starvation. Couple that to the clan disputes, political rivalry and other conflicts that result in outright armed warfare (with the victimization that kills locals or transmutes caring, honorable natives into homeless refugees) and the word misery doesn't begin to describe the Horror of life in many places. AIDS still isn't done with the people, either. It will continue to burn through the populace for some time, maybe for generations. The question for far too many brothers and sisters there isn't how much money they can make but whether they will be able to stay alive one more day. One more hour.

Answer 2

$270 per year in South Africa