26 Feb 2024
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Environmental and occupational health and hygiene professionals who have 20 years of experience in their job, will earn between K4,616 and K39,340 per month. Of the participating people in this job, 26% work in a multinational organisation. This is evident from research conducted by Mywage.org/Zambia, in 2024.
Highest salary for environmental and occupational health and hygiene professionals with 30 years of experience: K3,685 to K60,255 per month
Based on our survey, workers in this occupation with 30 years of work experience earn the highest salary: between K3,685 and K60,255 per month. Based on 20 years of work experience, workers in this occupation will earn between K22 and K189 per hour.
Environmental and occupational health and hygiene professionals mostly male
The age group for workers who answered the survey was mostly between 24 and 29 years of age. 60% of workers in this occupation are parents of at least 1 child. 58% says they are male, while 42% entered female as their gender.
Average working week of 39 hours
Coverage by collective bargaining amongst people in this job is 3%, while 97% are not covered by a collective agreement, according to our survey. People in this job work 39 hours per week on average.
50% of environmental and occupational health and hygiene professionals fewer than 5 years of work experience
26% of all participating workers in this occupation work in a multinational organisation. 47% of people in this job state that they have a permanent contract for the work that they are doing. In most cases, people in this job report that the majority of their coworkers are female. Employees mostly work in organisations consisting of 500 or more people. 50% of employees have worked fewer than 5 years since their first job. 53% of workers in this occupation state that they have no permanent contract for their job.
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 environmental and occupational health and hygiene professionals
Among the workers in this occupation, 23% reported they are in between satisfied and dissatisfied with their wage. Generally, 49% of the employees report they are dissatisfied with their salary.
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