Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that there were 28 banks in Macao and number of full-time employees totalled 5,928 at the end of the third quarter of 2015, an increase of 255 year-on-year. Analysed by occupation, there were 1,632 directors and managers, and 2,046 clerks (including 750 bank tellers). In September 2015, average earnings (excluding bonuses and allowances) of full-time employees amounted to MOP24,910, up by 8.0% year-on-year. Average earnings of bank tellers increased by 12.3% to MOP14,690. At the end of the third quarter of 2015, job vacancies remained stable as a year ago, at 247; vacancies for clerk totalled 110, including 37 for bank tellers. In terms of recruitment prerequisites, 58.3% of the vacancies required working experience, 93.1% required tertiary education, and requirement for knowledge of Mandarin and English accounted for 96.4% and 96.8% respectively. In the third quarter of 2015, the Banking Sector hired 483 new employees; the employee recruitment rate (8.3%) and the employee turnover rate (5.7%) fell by 1.0 and 0.8 percentage points respectively year-on-year, indicating that the manpower situation of the Banking Sector was relatively stable in this quarter. As regards vocational training, the Banking Sector had 6,065 employee participants attending training courses provided by the employer (including courses organized by the banks or in conjunction with other institutions, and those sponsored by the banks). About 83.3% of the participants attended courses organized by the banks. The majority of the participants (68.8%) attended Business & Administration courses, followed by Law courses (20.0%).
