Information from the Statistics and Census Service showed that in the fourth quarter of 2007, the average daily wage of the overall construction workers was MOP595, up by 6.7% over the previous quarter. The average wage of skilled & semi-skilled workers was MOP625, of which truck drivers had the highest average wage of MOP713, which was followed by scaffolders at MOP679, up by 2.3% and 7.3% respectively from the preceding quarter. The average of unskilled workers was MOP364, down slightly by 0.5%. In nominal terms, the wage index for the fourth quarter of 2007 rose by 6.7% from the previous quarter to 224.9, up by 16.0% over the same quarter of 2006. In real terms, the wage index for the fourth quarter of 2007 rose by 5.0% from the previous quarter, of which the wage index of skilled & semi-skilled workers increased by 6.1% and that of unskilled workers went down by 2.1%.
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