Salary Survey Begins for SA Legal Secretary

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startLast month we posted a poll which asked whether people would want to take part in a salary survey to get an idea what salaries are being paid in the market. The response was 92% in favour of knowing the average salary and 8% not wanting to know or take part in the survey. So here we are...

The idea is not to find the salary and whip everybody into line, but merely to establish fair indices on what the salaries should be for each region in the country. As you can imagine the salary in Gauteng is going to be higher than that in the North West Province as an example.

Our first survey is the Secretary Survey and we have divided the sections up as follows:
• Province
• Job title
• Years of experience
• Typing speed
• Salary package (total before any deductions)

By asking these questions we can classify the submissions made into definite sections and will be able to give back stats on things like:

• Salaries per experience/province/department
• Province average
• Typing speed average per junior or senior secretary or per department
• Percentage junior to senior secretaries (in other words, do we have enough youngsters coming into the market?)

As you may have noticed, nowhere do we request any personal information, this is completely anonymous. We will need about 6 weeks to gather the submissions and then we need to compile them into a readable format which will be available in Tech4Law.

For this information to be fair to both employers and employees we need to ensure that there are sufficient submissions; otherwise we will end up with inaccurate information which will cause untold nightmares for all concerned.

We will offer the first 1000 submissions a free day visit to a Health Spa of your choice - oh shoot - it's anonymous! ;-)

So tell everyone you know to take part in the 5 questions.

5 Questions, 5 seconds.

 

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0 #4 Malcolm 2010-05-11 12:16
Mystry - you will find that if this is the case the report will reflect it across the board and it can then either be ignored or reflected. The bad language settings had a real wobble with the post in the beginning
Cat - the responses are saved in a database which we will report on once all the responses are done. Keep an eye open for them in the notifications.
Gary - I would like to get hold of this survey you talk of, to use it as a reference - any idea on where I can get more information?
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+3 #3 Mystry 2010-05-11 10:00
I am slightly put out by the salary questionnaire. You lump legal secretaries and conveyancing secretaries together when they are worlds apart. Typing speed means nothing in conveyancing and we certainly do not do dicta-typing... with conveyancing you actually have to have a brain that you use on a daily basis as you normally work without supervision. Supervision means the conveyancer tries his/ her best to fault you on your draft documents and only then will sign them off. So I must admit that I find asking for my typing speed a little offensive!
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0 #2 2010-05-11 09:40


I have taken part in the survey but I am not sure what I am meant to post here...
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+1 #1 2010-05-11 08:20
Purely for interest sake, the salary survey amongst Cape law firms and legal personnel is not new. In the nineties, a salary survey used to be done almost every year, and mostly initiated by the then firms of Silberbauers, Fairbridges, Sonnenberg, etc.
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