The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) released results of the Survey on Manpower Needs and Wages for the first quarter of 2010. Survey coverage comprised the Manufacturing; Hotels & Restaurants; Financial; and Electricity, Gas & Water Supply sectors, excluding own-account workers, as well as insurance agents and brokers not directly employed by insurance companies. At the end of the first quarter of 2010, the Manufacturing sector had 15,203 paid employees, down significantly by 22.7% year-on-year, with those working in Manufacture of Wearing Apparel decreasing notably by 35.6% to 7,679. In March 2010, average earnings (excluding bonuses and allowances) of full-time employees rose by 11.2% year-on-year to MOP5,780, with Sewing machine operators earning MOP3,480 in average. The Hotels & Restaurants sector took on 48,287 paid employees, up by 4.2% year-on-year, with 31,483 working in hotels. In March, average earnings of full-time employees rose by 1.3% year-on-year to MOP9,970. Earnings of Housekeeping staff amounted to MOP6,080. The Financial sector had 5,507 paid employees, down slightly by 0.8% year-on-year, with 4,630 working in banks. The average earnings of full-time employees in March rose by 5.6% year-on-year to MOP18,550 and that of Bank tellers was MOP10,760. The Electricity, Gas & Water Supply sector had 1,057 paid employees, up slightly by 0.4% year-on-year. The average earnings of full-time employees in March went up by 1.3% year-on-year to MOP22,230. At the end of March 2010, the Manufacturing sector reported 1,457 job vacancies; the Hotels & Restaurants sector had 3,696 vacancies, and the Financial and Electricity, Gas & Water Supply sectors had 214 and 23 vacancies respectively. In terms of recruitment prerequisites, 73.9% of the vacancies in the Electricity, Gas & Water Supply sector and 61.6% of those in the Manufacturing sector required working experience. As regards educational attainment, 98.1% of the vacancies in the Financial sector and 95.7% of those in the Electricity, Gas & Water Supply sector required senior secondary education or higher. With respect to the indicators that measure the inflow and outflow of human resources, as well as staffing needs of the sectors, the Hotels & Restaurants sector had the highest employee turnover rate and recruitment rate, at 6.8% and 6.0% respectively; meanwhile, the job vacancy rate of the Manufacturing sector stood at 9.2%.
