 8 South African Universities That Will Make You Earn More Than Our 200,000 Per Month. Data from Research Group. Payscale. Shows which graduates from South Africa's top universities have gone on to have the highest average salaries. Payscale uses big data to analyze and present salary data through a variety of metrics, from level of working experience, degrees studied and job fields employees work in. One of the metrics is salaries based on which universities an employee graduated from. According to the data, graduates from the Whits University have the highest average salary range, between our 145,580 and our 861,370, though it's the University of Cape Town which has the highest average salary for those with a bachelor's degree, our 348,000. Meanwhile, graduates from smaller cities, like Durban and Port Elizabeth, have lower salary ranges, with the latter having the lowest average for a bachelor's degree, our 229,790. Payscales data generally reflects the regional data recently published by Jobs Portal, Career Junction, showing how salary ranges differed across South Africa's three major metro areas. In the study, salaries in Johannesburg were consistently higher than the national average when compared to Durban and Cape Town. In the latter two regions, salaries were mainly lower, but also higher depending on the specific industry or sector. With graduates from any given university typically going on to work in the same R as the university, Whits graduates working in Johannesburg, UCT graduates in Cape Town, etc., it stands to reason that the salary ranges attached to those universities reflects the area they are in.