The Statistics and Census Service released the results of the Manpower Needs and Wages Survey for the second quarter of 2007. The survey coverage includes Wholesale & retail trade; Transport, storage & communications; Security activities; and Public sewage & refuse disposal activities, but excludes the own-account workers engaging in these industries. The survey results were extrapolated based on the data obtained from 843 statistical units successfully interviewed, given as follows: At the end of the second quarter of 2007, a total of 21,841 paid employees were working in Wholesale & retail trade, up by 9.6% over the same period of 2006, with 11,996 working in Retail trade. The average earnings (excluding bonuses and allowances) for full-time employees in June 2007 was MOP 7,700, representing a year-on-year increase of 13.3%. Sales representatives and Salespersons earned an average of MOP 9,489 and MOP 6,244 respectively. Transport, storage & communications took on 7,388 paid employees, which rose by 9.3% compared with the second quarter of 2006. In June 2007, the average earnings for full-time employees in this sector increased by 4.7% to MOP 13,490. The average for Passenger vehicle/truck drivers in Land transport was MOP 11 486. Security activities had 3,640 paid employees, up by 16.4% year-on-year. The average earnings in June 2007 was MOP 6,205, up by 16.7% over the same month of 2006, with Security guards earning MOP 5,795 in average. There were 590 paid employees working in Public sewage & refuse disposal activities, up by 12.4% compared with the second quarter of 2006; the average earnings in June 2007 increased by 6.5% year-on-year to MOP 10,462. At the end of June 2007, Wholesale & retail trade reported to have 4,328 job vacancies, of which 2,533 were in Retail trade. In addition, Security activities; and Transport and storage & communications had 1,218 and 1,201 vacancies respectively. In terms of recruitment prerequisites, 61.0% of the vacant posts in Wholesale & retail trade and 40.1% in Transport, storage & communications required working experience. Furthermore, the majority of the vacant posts in the above mentioned industries required junior secondary or lower in educational attainment, while 85.8% of the vacancies in Security activities required primary education only. As regard the language skill, besides Cantonese, 48.3% of the vacancies in Wholesale & retail trade required Mandarin.
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