Chemists mostly male

Salary for starting chemists between K7,060 and K20,420 per month

Employees with 15 years of work experience earn the highest salary: between K9,259 and K46,515 per month. Workers who are new to the job, will earn between K7,060 and K20,420 per month, based on one year of work experience.

Among the workers who share information on their wages and working conditions, most are male. Workers who answered the survey are mostly between 24 and 29 years of age. 60% of workers have 1 child or more.

Average working week of 42 hours

On average, employees work 42 hours per week. According to our survey, coverage by collective bargaining among workers in this occupation is set at 3%. 97% are not covered by a collective agreement.

Coworkers mostly male

46% of people in this job state that they have no permanent contract for their job. People in this job who have a permanent contract for the work they are performing, add up to 54%. Since starting their first job, 52% of employees have worked fewer than 5 years. For most people in this job, the majority of their coworkers are male. People in this job mostly work in organisations consisting of 500 or more people. 47% of all participating people in this job work in a multinational organisation.

In the survey, 8% of the workers choose 'highly satisfied' as their job satisfaction level. On the whole, workers in this occupation feel in between satisfied and dissatisfied about their job. This feeling is shared by 35% of the workers in this occupation.

Wage dissatisfaction high among chemists

Of all surveyed people in this job, 29% feel highly dissatisfied about their salary. Generally, 32% of the workers in this occupation report they are dissatisfied with their salary.

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