Just how much money you should you be making in your 20's

Its data shows what South African youth can expect to earn within their the first nine years of working experience.

The PayScale salary data is ascertained by years of experience, and not age in particular. However, it can be expected that experience and age are closely associated for most employees who leave the university at age 21.

The salary data is below also carried some warning, mainly that it is a complete picture of media salaries, captured across all industries, for people who hold a bachelor's degree.

Various career paths also reach their highest point at different times, economists at PayScale note that any career where the most of training happens in school or within the first few years of work, will probably not see much pay rise after that.

According to PayScale data for 2018, this what South Africans in their 20s can expect to be paid, yearly, in their first nine or so years of work.

If a person had less than 1 year of work experience they can expect to earn R155300; if a person had between 1 to 4 years of experience then they can expect to earn R208900 and if a person has between 5 to 9 years of experience they can expect to earn R357890.

The salary data from PayScale is based on submitted information from more than 270000 South African employees who have up to nine years of work experience and revised as of January 2018.

The numbers represented arethe median salary. These is the most popular occupations for each bracket of work experience as listed by PayScale:

Mechanical Engineer: R238 740

Receptionist: R58 990

Software Developer: R229 360

Safety Officer: R153 400

Sales Consultant: R90 300

Operations Manager: R310 300

Safety Officer: R240,650