The Statistics and Census Service released the results of the Manpower Needs and Wages Survey for the first quarter of 2007. The survey covered the Manufacturing; Hotels & restaurants; Financial intermediation and Electricity, gas & water supply sectors, but excluded own-account workers and insurance intermediaries not directly employed by insurance companies. The survey results were extrapolated based on the data obtained from 644 statistical units successfully interviewed, given as follows: At the end of the first quarter of 2007, the Manufacturing sector had 29,528 paid employees, down by 7.3% over the same period of 2006. Among them, 20,376 were working in the manufacture of wearing apparel. In March 2007, the average earnings (excluding bonuses and allowances) for full time employees in this sector amounted to MOP 4,789, up by 6.6% over the same month of 2006. The average earnings of the Sewing machine operators in the manufacture of wearing apparel was MOP 3,620. The Hotels & restaurants sector logged 30,563 employees, with 15,957 working in hotels. Number of employees surged by 35.0% over the first quarter of 2006, which was driven by the booming hotel industry. The average earnings for employees in March 2007 rose by 18.9% to MOP 7,078. The average earnings for the hotel Housekeeping employees and the restaurants Waiters/waitresses were MOP 4,659 and MOP 4,915 respectively. The Financial intermediation sector had 4,866 paid employees, up by 7.4% compared with the first quarter of 2006, with 4,135 working in banks. The average earnings for March 2007 went up by 4.7% to MOP 14,647 and that for the Bank tellers was MOP 8,498. The Electricity, gas & water supply sector had 1,024 paid employees, which dropped slightly by 1.4% year-on-year. The average earnings increased by 12.6% over March 2006 to MOP 20,449. At the end of March 2007, the Manufacturing sector recorded 6,550 vacancies, of which 5,025 were in the manufacture of wearing apparel. The Hotels & restaurants sector had 5,430 vacancies, while the Financial intermediation and the Electricity, gas & water supply sectors logged 261 and 27 vacant posts respectively. In terms of recruitment prerequisites, approximately 80.0% of the vacant posts in the Manufacturing sector required working experience. Over 90.0% of the vacancies in the Electricity, gas & water supply and the Financial intermediation sectors required senior secondary or higher education. Besides Cantonese, English (82.4%) and Mandarin (82.0%) were the more preferable language skills for the vacancies in the Financial intermediation sector.
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