The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) released results of the Survey on Manpower Needs and Wages of the Gaming Sector for the second quarter of 2010. Survey coverage excluded junket promoters and junket associates. At the end of the second quarter of 2010, the Gaming Sector had 43,870 employees, down slightly by 0.2% year-on-year. Among the employees who are directly related to betting services, 18,684 were dealers, up by 3.3% year-on-year; 11,724 were hard & soft count clerks, cage cashiers, pit bosses, casino floorpersons, betting service operators, etc., down by 4.0%. Meanwhile, 5,060 were casino & slot machine attendants, security guards, surveillance room operators, etc., down slightly by 0.5% from a year earlier. In June 2010, average earnings (excluding bonuses and allowances) of full-time employees rose slightly by 0.9% year-on-year to MOP 15,390. Average earnings of dealers rose by 3.6% over June 2009 to MOP 13,590, and that for hard & soft count clerks, cage cashiers, pit bosses, casino floorpersons, betting service operators, etc. stood at MOP 18,880, up by 1.5%. Average earnings of casino & slot machine attendants, security guards, surveillance room operators, etc. registered a slight year-on-year decrease of 0.4% to MOP 10,020. At the end of June 2010, number of vacancies of the Gaming Sector increased substantially by 74.0% year-on-year to 628, with 174 for dealers, 96 for hard & soft count clerks, cage cashiers, pit bosses, casino floorpersons, betting service operators, etc. and 125 for casino & slot machine attendants, security guards, surveillance room operators, etc. As regards recruitment prerequisites, 52.5% of the vacancies required working experience, and 66.3% required senior secondary education or higher. Other preferred language skills were Mandarin (63.2%) and English (45.1%). With respect to the indicators that measure the inflow and outflow of human resources, as well as staffing needs of the sector, the employee recruitment rate (4.2%) and turnover rate (4.1%) of the Gaming Sector dropped year-on-year in the second quarter of 2010, while the job vacancy rate (1.5%) rose by 0.7 percentage point.
