23 Feb 2024
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Health professionals who have 0 years of experience in their job, will earn between K4,259 and K16,629 per month. People in this job who have 0 years of experience, receive a hourly salary ranging from K20 to K80. This is evident from research conducted by Mywage.org/Zambia, in 2024.
Based on our survey, workers with 30 years of work experience earn the highest salary: between K3,685 and K60,255 per month. With 0 years of work experience, people in this job will earn K20 to K80 per hour.
Health professionals mostly male
58% says they are male, while 42% entered female as their gender. 60% of workers have 1 child or more. People in this job who answered the survey are mostly between 24 and 29 years of age.
Employees work 39 hours per week on average. Coverage by collective bargaining amongst workers is 3%, while 97% are not covered by a collective agreement, according to our survey.
Majority organisations employ 500 or more workers
For most people in this job, the majority of their coworkers are female. 26% of all participating people in this job work in a multinational organisation. Workers mostly work in organisations consisting of 500 or more people. 53% of workers in this occupation state that they have no permanent contract for their job. 47% of workers state that they have a permanent contract for the work that they are doing. Since starting their first job, 50% of workers in this occupation have worked fewer than 5 years.
The survey shows that 8% of the workers in this occupation feel highly satisfied about their position. On the whole, workers feel in between satisfied and dissatisfied about their job. This feeling is shared by 35% of the workers.
Wage dissatisfaction high among health professionals
Among the workers, 23% reported they are in between satisfied and dissatisfied with their wage. 49% of the people in this job reports to be dissatisfied with their wage.
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