R33,000 a day: Some directors of top SA companies earn eye-watering amounts Business Insider SA facebook The JSE building in Sandton. Photo: Elvira Wood A new PwC report shows non-executive directors on JSE-listed company boards are earning on average around R1 million a year. Board chairpersons get much more, with the ten biggest JSE-listed companies - which include international behemoths - paying on average R12 million a year. Chairperson pay jumped by more than 12% in what was a tough year for most companies. For more articles, go to . Serving on the board of a large company can be extremely lucrative, with the chairpersons of the top ten JSE-listed firms earning on average R12 million a year – that’s almost R33,000 every day of the year.