Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the 27 banks in Macao had a total of 5,228 employees at the end of the first quarter of 2012, up by 7.5% year-on-year. Analyzed by occupation, technicians and associate professionals totalled 1,466, an increase of 13.5% year-on-year; 2,341 were clerks, with 842 being bank tellers. In March 2012, average earnings (excluding bonuses and allowances) of full-time employees amounted to MOP20,810, up by 5.9% year-on-year. Average earnings of bank tellers stood at MOP12,060 and that of professionals amounted to MOP23,120, up by 12.1% and 7.2% year-on-year respectively. At the end of the first quarter of 2012, number of job vacancies of the Banking Sector totalled 223, down by 19.8% year-on-year; vacancies for clerks stood at 119, with 52 for bank tellers. In terms of recruitment prerequisites, 59.2% of the vacancies required working experience and 73.1% required tertiary education. Besides Cantonese, other preferred language skills were Mandarin (91.5%) and English (88.3%). The Banking Sector hired 206 new employees in the first quarter of 2012, lower than the 470 recruits in the third quarter of 2011, bringing the employee recruitment rate down substantially by 5.3 percentage points from 9.3% to 4.0%. The job vacancy rate was 4.1%, up by 1.6 percentage points from the third quarter of 2011, with the vacancy rate for professionals topped at 7.5%.
