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Table 3.3. Basic monthly wages of senior staff in Nigeria, 2004 (Nigerian naira)<br />

Oil production Banking Academia<br />

Foremen, graduate assistants 112 167 25 000 15 479<br />

Supervisors, assistant lecturers 152 500 29 167 19 396<br />

Officers, lecturers II 196 250 33 333 22 571<br />

Assistant managers, lecturer I 246 250 50 000 30 994<br />

Managers, senior lecturers 290 417 66 667 42 692<br />

Directors, associate professors 315 833 70 833 48 372<br />

General managers, executive directors, directors-general,<br />

professors<br />

349 750 82 083 54 220<br />

Sources: PENGASSAN (2004): Wage re-opener negotiations. Government directive on the implementation of university academic<br />

staff salary scale; and interviews with the National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions’ Employees.<br />

Table 3.4. Basic monthly wages of junior staff in Nigeria, 2004 (Nigerian naira)<br />

Line workers (fitters, drivers, packers, electricians,<br />

operators, clerks)<br />

Oil production Banking Academia<br />

22 000 20 000 15 000<br />

Technical and administrative support staff 27 000 25 000 18 000<br />

Technical and administrative assistants 36 000 32 000 24 000<br />

Sources: Adoy Ltd and Togay Ventures collective agreement; National Universities Commission of Nigeria (2004). National Union<br />

of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG).<br />

Table 3.5. Wages in the oil industry in South Africa, 2002–03<br />

Sector Hours of work Minimum<br />

weekly wage<br />

2003 (rand)<br />

Fast-moving consumer<br />

goods<br />

Minimum<br />

weekly wage<br />

2002 (rand)<br />

Increase (%) Real wage<br />

increase (%)<br />

CPI-X<br />

(average 6.8%)<br />

40 531.17 483.36 9 2.2<br />

Industrial chemicals 40 577.36 525.4 9 2.2<br />

Petroleum 42 638.9 571.4 9 2.2<br />

Pharmaceutical 40 623.55 567.43 9 2.2<br />

Metal and engineering<br />

industries<br />

40 498.8 n.a. n.a. n.a.<br />

Source: Labour Research Service Report, Vol. 9, April 2004, South Africa. n.a. = not available.<br />

38. Similar trends are observed in the salaries of non-production workers in the oil industry. In<br />

2004, non-production workers in the oil and gas exploration and production sector in<br />

Indonesia earned around 11.3 million Indonesian rupiah (US$1,216) per month, seven<br />

times more than workers in the manufacturing and hotel sectors (figure 3.1).<br />

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