The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) released results of the Survey on Manpower Needs and Wages for the third quarter of 2011. Survey coverage comprised the Manufacturing sector; Hotels & Restaurants; the Insurance sector; Financial Intermediation Activities and the Electricity, Gas & Water Supply sector, excluding own-account workers, as well as insurance agents and brokers not directly employed by insurance companies. At the end of the third quarter of 2011, the Manufacturing sector had 11,809 paid employees, down by 13.2% year-on-year, with those working in Manufacture of Wearing Apparel (4,528) and Manufacture of Textiles (804) and decreasing significantly by 29.1% and 28.7% respectively. In September 2011, average earnings (excluding bonuses and allowances) of full-time employees rose by 7.1% year-on-year to MOP6,940, with Sewing machine operators earning MOP3,480 in average. Hotels & Restaurants took on 58,088 paid employees, up by 17.2% year-on-year, with 38,165 working in hotels. In September, average earnings of full-time employees rose by 5.2% year-on-year to MOP10,750. Waiters/waitresses of hotels earned an average of MOP7,310, while those of restaurants earned MOP6,260. Housekeeping staff earned MOP6,760. The Electricity, Gas & Water Supply sector had 1,067 paid employees, down slightly by 0.1% year-on-year. Average earnings of full-time employees increased by 4.3% over September 2010 to MOP23,430. The Insurance sector took on 459 paid employees, up by 1.5% year-on-year. Average earnings of full-time employees in September rose by 6.6% year-on-year to MOP19,300. Financial Intermediation Activities had 389 paid employees, down by 4.7% year-on-year. In September, average earnings of full-time employees increased by 11.7% year-on-year to MOP12,990.
At the end of the third quarter of 2011, the Manufacturing sector reported 1,202 job vacancies; Hotels & Restaurants had 7,425 vacancies, while both the Insurance sector and Financial Intermediation Activities had 19 vacancies. In terms of recruitment prerequisites, more than 50% of the vacancies in these five industries required working experience. As regards educational attainment, 70.4% of the vacancies in the Manufacturing sector required junior secondary education or lower; meanwhile, all of the vacancies in the Insurance sector and 77.8% of those in the Electricity, Gas & Water Supply sector and a required senior secondary education or higher. Besides Cantonese, all the vacancies in Financial Intermediation Activities required knowledge of Mandarin and English; the respective percentages for those in Hotels & Restaurants were 72.7% and 62.9%; meanwhile, 84.2% of the vacancies in the Insurance sector required knowledge of English. With respect to the indicators that measure inflow and outflow of human resources, as well as staffing needs, Hotels & Restaurants had the highest employee recruitment rate (9.9%) and job vacancy rate (12.0%), up by 0.6 and 2.9 percentage points respectively year-on-year. The Manufacturing sector had the highest employee turnover rate of 7.9%.
