Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that there were 28 banks in Macao; number of full-time employees increased by 53 year-on-year to 6,053 at the end of the first quarter of 2017. Analysed by occupation, there were 1,626 directors and managers, and 2,030 clerks (including 749 bank tellers).
In March 2017, average earnings (excluding bonuses) of full-time employees amounted to MOP26,020, up by 3.5% year-on-year. Average earnings of bank tellers increased slightly by 0.4% to MOP15,380.
At the end of the first quarter of 2017, job vacancies stood at 245, similar to a year ago; vacancies for clerks totalled 147,including 32 for bank tellers.
In terms of recruitment prerequisites, 64.5% of the vacancies required work experience, 96.3% required tertiary education, and requirement for knowledge of Mandarin and English accounted for 98.4% and 97.1% respectively.
In the first quarter of 2017, the Banking Sector hired 174 new employees; the employee turnover rate (3.0%) and the employee recruitment rate (2.9%) rose slightly by 0.1 and 0.2 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 6,921 employee participants attending training courses provided by the employer (including courses organised by the banks or in conjunction with other institutions, and those sponsored by the banks). The majority of the participants (85.8%) attended courses organised by the banks. Most of the participants (86.0%) attended Business & Administration courses, followed by Law courses (9.8%).