Results of the Survey on Manpower Needs and Wages for the 4th Quarter 2010

The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) released results of the Survey on Manpower Needs and Wages for the fourth quarter of 2010. Survey coverage comprised the Gaming sector; Wholesale & Retail Trade; Transport, Storage & Communications sector; Security Activities and Public Sewage & Refuse Disposal Activities, excluding own-account workers and junket promoters & junket associates. At the end of the fourth quarter of 2010, the Gaming sector had 44,806 employees, up by 1.8% year-on-year, of which 19,149 were dealers, an increase of 4.8%. In December 2010, average earnings (excluding bonuses and allowances) of full-time employees rose by 4.0% year-on-year to MOP 15,700, with dealers earning MOP 13,610 in average. Wholesale & Retail Trade had 30,757 paid employees, up by 5.3% year-on-year, with 18,897 working in Retail trade. In December 2010, average earnings of full-time employees rose by 9.2% year-on-year to MOP9,930, with Sales representatives and Salespersons earning MOP12,000 and MOP9,000 respectively in average. The Transport, Storage & Communications sector took on 7,341 paid employees, down by 4.1% year-on-year. In December, average earnings of full-time employees decreased by 1.1% year-on-year to MOP14,930. Drivers of passenger/cargo transport by land earned an average of MOP13,090. Security Activities had 4,735 paid employees, up by 26.3% year-on-year. The average earnings of full-time employees in December rose by 1.4% year-on-year to MOP7,940, with Security guards earning MOP7,610 in average. Public Sewage & Refuse Disposal Activities had 650 paid employees, up by 4.3% year-on-year. The average earnings of full-time employees in December increased by 4.4% year-on-year to MOP10,980. With a major gaming and tourism project and a new public bus operator coming into operation, number of vacancies in the Gaming sector surged by almost nine-fold year-on-year to 3,761 (2,121 for dealers) at the end of the fourth quarter of 2010, while Land transport reported 629 vacancies, up drastically by almost seven-fold year-on-year. In terms of recruitment prerequisites, 68.3% of the vacancies in the Gaming sector required no working experience, while 79.8% of the vacancies in the Transport, Storage & Communications sector and 61.1% of those in Wholesale & Retail Trade required working experience. As regards educational attainment, 75.0% of the vacancies in the Gaming sector and 53.0% of those in Public Sewage & Refuse Disposal Activities required senior secondary education or higher, while 68.5% of the vacancies in the Transport, Storage & Communications sector and 67.9% of those in Security Activities required primary education only. Besides Cantonese, Mandarin and English were the more preferable language skills for the vacancies in Wholesale & Retail Trade at 63.1% and 40.8% respectively; for those in the Gaming sector, 28.3% required knowledge of Mandarin and 23.9% required English. With respect to the indicators that measure the inflow and outflow of human resources, as well as staffing needs of the sectors, Security Activities had the highest job vacancy rate, employee recruitment rate and turnover rate, at 15.6%, 13.7% and 7.4% respectively. Job vacancy rate of the Gaming sector (7.9%) rose substantially by 7.0 percentage points year-on-year, whilst the employee recruitment rate was 5.9%, up by 1.0 percentage point.