15 Mar 2024
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With 20 years of work experience, medical assistants will earn from USh814,140 to USh2,551,290 monthly. In general, most workers are satisfied with their position. This is the case for 36% of the workers. This is made clear in research by Mywage.org/Uganda, conducted in 2024.
Inexperienced medical assistants earn hourly wage between USh2,911 and USh8,976
Employees with 30 years of work experience earn the highest salary: between USh975,293 and USh2,926,298 per month. People in this job earn between USh2,911 and USh8,976 per hour at the start of the career, having 1 year of work experience.
Medical assistants mostly male
56% of workers in this occupation have 1 child or more. Employees who answered the survey are mostly between 24 and 29 years of age. 65% says they are male, while 35% entered female as their gender.
Average working week of 43 hours
Coverage by collective bargaining amongst workers in this occupation is 10%, while 90% are not covered by a collective agreement, according to our survey. On average, workers work 43 hours per week.
Majority organisations employ 500 or more workers
The majority of people in this job work in organisations of 500 or more employees. Workers who do not have a permanent contract for the work they are performing, added up to 66% of respondents. Since starting their first job, 52% of employees have worked fewer than 5 years. For most workers in this occupation, the majority of their coworkers are female. Of the participating employees, 23% work in a multinational organisation. 34% of people in this job state that they have a permanent contract for the work that they are doing.
In the survey, 7% of the employees choose 'highly dissatisfied' as their job satisfaction level. On the whole, people in this job feel satisfied about their job. This feeling is shared by 36% of the people in this job.
Of all surveyed workers, 26% feel dissatisfied about their salary. 28% of the employees reports to be highly dissatisfied with their wage.
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