The South African economy created around 80-thousand new jobs in January.
That's according to the Adcorp Employment Index released today.
However, Adcorp says the economy is still 420-thousand jobs short of the peak employment level before the 2009 global financial crisis.
It says all sectors of the economy reported gains in employment in January, with temporary work growing at a rate of seven percent and agency work at eight percent.
Adcorp says temporary work now represents 3.87 million workers or 30.1 percent of the workforce.
Meanwhile, Adcorp says incomes have risen, while income inequality has narrowed over the past decade.
Adcorps Loane Sharpe says there was a real increase of 39 percent in "after-inflation" incomes, or a respectable 3.3 percent a year.
He says in the past decade the income inequality between the races, especially between blacks and whites, had declined sharply.
Sharp says in 2000, the average black South African earned 15 percent of the average white South African's income, whereas in 2011 this was around 40 percent.
