The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) released results of the Survey on Manpower Needs and Wages for the second quarter of 2010. Survey coverage comprised Wholesale & Retail Trade; Transport, Storage & Communications; Security Activities and Public Sewage & Refuse Disposal Activities, excluding own-account workers. At the end of the second quarter of 2010, Wholesale & Retail Trade had 28,825 paid employees, up by 6.4% year-on-year, with 17,390 working in Retail trade. In June 2010, average earnings (excluding bonuses and allowances) of full-time employees rose by 6.4% year-on-year to MOP9,200, with Sales representatives and Salespersons earning MOP10,520 and MOP8,310 respectively in average. The Transport, Storage & Communications sector took on 7,410 paid employees, down by 3.9% year-on-year. In June, average earnings of full-time employees increased by 1.2% year-on-year to MOP15,100. Drivers of passenger/cargo transport by land earned an average of MOP12,400. Security Activities had 4,189 paid employees, up by 10.1% year-on-year. The average earnings of full-time employees in June rose slightly by 0.5% year-on-year to MOP7,440, with Security guards earning MOP7,000 in average. Public Sewage & Refuse Disposal Activities had 632 paid employees, down by 5.0% year-on-year. The average earnings of full-time employees in June decreased by 2.1% year-on-year to MOP11,030. At the end of June 2010, Wholesale & Retail Trade reported 3,072 job vacancies, up drastically by 82.2% year-on-year; Security Activities had 796 vacancies, a notable increase of 65.8%, and the Transport, Storage & Communications sector had 327 vacancies, up by 10.8% year-on-year. In terms of recruitment prerequisites, 59.4% of the vacancies in Wholesale & Retail Trade and 48.2% of those in the Transport, Storage & Communications sector required working experience. As regards educational attainment, 73.7% of the vacancies in Public Sewage & Refuse Disposal Activities required senior secondary education or higher; 75.5% of the vacancies in Wholesale & Retail Trade required junior secondary education or higher, while 77.8% of those in Security Activities required primary education only. 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 recruitment rate, employee turnover rate and job vacancy rate, at 8.9%, 10.7% and 16.1% respectively.
