“Ask for a Raise”: Mzansi Reacts to Underwhelming Retail Manager Salary With 11 Years Experience

“Ask for a Raise”: Mzansi Reacts to Underwhelming Retail Manager Salary With 11 Years Experience

  • A TikTok lady and famous salary reviewer, Boni shared one of the most underwhelming payslips she has ever seen
  • The woman is known to share some of the most worldly cheques, but this time, her followers ended the clip with a frown
  • Boni reviewed a retail manager's salary, and the numbers did not match the hard work that the employees put in

Mzansi's famous salary reviewer returned with another payslip, but she wanted a better result this time.

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A retail manager's salary underwhelmed South Africa. Image: Briefly News
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Boni shared the salary of a retail manager working at one of Mzansi's famous supermarkets for over a decade.

SA reacts to underwhelming Retail Manager salary

Retail managers have a lot of duties to perform daily, namely:

  • Managing budget/s
  • Maintaining statistics and financial records 
  • Recruiting 
  • Training 
  • Supervising 
  • Overseeing stock
  • Dealing with customers
  • Meeting sales/targets
  • Promote a healthy working environment 
  • Liaise with head office 
  • Come up with store promotions 

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With the endless list of their duties, one would think that retail managers are among the highest-paid people ever, but Boni, a famous salary reviewer, told SA a different story. Having shared jaw-dropping salaries on her social media, the lady broke her streak with an underwhelming retail manager's payslip.

Before revealing the numbers, she shared that the employee had worked eleven years at the "big company" that sells food and clothes. The retail manager only has a high school qualification and works five days a week. 

The employee told Boni that:

"I feel underpaid because I'm actually responsible for almost all processes in my department. I lead a team of more than five people. I delegate tasks."

The employee earns R9542 before deductions that eventually drop the numbers to R8062. 

Watch the video below:

Mzansi reacts to retail manager's salary

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Social media users were underwhelmed by a retail manager's income and commented:

@Diana thought the patterns were similar:

"I'm sure it's Woolworths. I used to work there, and the managers cried."

@peachheart🧡 was stunned:

"A managerial position with only matric?"

@Dr-Lhuu Jama wondered:

"If a manager gets this, how much does the teller get?"

@lethabojoyce4 shared:

"Even Shoprite doesn't pay less than 15k for a manager."

@MM commented:

"That's @Woolworths. My parents worked there! My mom resigned when I started working cause back then; my salary was above hers...mind you, she worked there for over 30 years!"

@Codesa advised the employee to speak up:

"Boni, please ask if people are scared to ask for a raise. That's literally the only thing I miss about the private sector; your salary could get adjusted anytime."

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Briefly News also reported that a woman on TikTok who enjoys sharing payslips of those who only have matric in the retail space crushed the souls of graduates who earn peanuts. The lady gave Mzansi major chest pains when she revealed that a liquor store manager gets paid around R52K before deductions.

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After reviewing the payslip online, netizens suspected that something was off with the numbers.

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Chuma Nontsele (Editor) Chuma Nontsele is a human interest journalist for Briefly News. Nontsele holds a diploma in journalism and started her career working at Daily Maverick as a news reporter. Later, she ventured into lifestyle. You can reach her at: chuma.nontsele@briefly.co.za