Just Share study highlights SA’s yawning pay gap

Shoprite’s CEO earned 1,081 times more than the company’s internal minimum wage in 2022

Garth Theunissen Shareholder activist group Just Share has highlighted the so-called vertical pay gap prevalent in SA by focusing on the extreme pay disparities between the highest and lowest paid workers at eight JSE-listed companies. The Cape Town-based advocacy group has for several years been lobbying the boards of directors of JSE-listed companies to disclose the wages of their lowest-paid workers alongside the remuneration details of their C-suite executives that they normally publish.