The Statistics and Census Service released the results of Manpower Needs and Wages Survey for the third quarter of 2006. The survey covered the Manufacturing; Electricity, gas & water supply; Hotels & restaurants; and Financial intermediation sectors, but excluded own-account workers and insurance intermediaries not directly employed by insurance companies. The survey results, which were extrapolated based on the data of 613 statistical units successfully interviewed, was given as follows: At the end of the third quarter of 2006, the Manufacturing sector had 31,250 paid employees, down by 1.0% over the same period of 2005. Among them, 21,760 were working in the manufacture of wearing apparel. In September 2006, the average monthly earnings (excluding bonuses and allowances) for full time employees in this sector amounted to MOP 4,644, up by 5.8% over the same month of 2005. “Sewing machine operators” in the manufacture of wearing apparel received an average earnings of MOP 3,395. The Electricity, gas & water supply sector had 1,033 paid employees, similar to that in the third quarter of 2005. The average earnings in this sector increased by 4.4% over September 2005 to MOP 19,483. The Hotels & restaurants sector logged 26,962 employees, an increase of 27.3% over the third quarter of 2005, with 13,961 working in the restaurant industry. The average earnings for September 2006 rose by 17.6% to MOP 6,673. The average earnings for “Housekeeping” employees in hotels was MOP 4,455, while that of the “Waiters/waitresses” in the restaurant industry earned an average of MOP 4,850 for September 2006. The Financial intermediation sector had 4,749 paid employees, up by 7.6% compared with the third quarter of 2005, with 4,033 working in the banks. The average earnings for September 2006 went up by 5.0% to MOP 13,823. In this sector, “Bank tellers” had an average earnings of MOP 8,000. At the end of September 2006, the Manufacturing sector recorded 5,580 vacancies, of which 4,358 were in the manufacture of wearing apparel. The Hotels & restaurants sector had 5,787 vacancies, while the Financial intermediation and the Electricity, gas & water supply sectors logged 188 and 13 vacant posts respectively. In terms of recruitment prerequisites, approximately 70.0% of the vacant posts in the Manufacturing sector required working experience. The majority of the vacancies in the Electricity, gas & water supply and the Financial intermediation sectors required senior secondary or higher education. Besides Cantonese, English (87.0%) and Mandarin (70.8%) were the more preferable language skills for the vacancies in the Financial intermediation sector, while in the Electricity, gas & water supply sector, approximately 70.0% of the vacant posts required English.
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