The results of Manpower Needs and Wages Survey for the fourth quarter of 2005 released by Statistics and Census Services.
The survey stated that the coverage has been extended from Wholesale & retail trade; Transport, storage & communications to include, for the first time, Security activities; and Sewage, refuse disposal & sanitation activities; however, the own-account workers engaging in these industries were excluded.
Information on the number of employees, earnings and number of vacancies was extrapolated based on the results obtained from 813 statistical units successfully interviewed, as follows:
At the end of the fourth quarter of 2005, a total of 20,000 paid employees were working in Wholesale & retail trade, within which 11,088 were in retail trade. Compared with the same period of 2004, number of paid employees in Wholesale & retail trade increased 10.6 percent.
In December 2005, average earnings (excluding year-end bonuses, holiday allowances, profit-sharing bonuses and other similar bonuses) for full-time employees in Wholesale & retail trade was MOP 6,439, up by 7.8 percent over the same period of 2004.
Transport, storage & communications took on 6,661 paid employees, with 2,219 working in Supporting & auxiliary transport activities. Compared with the fourth quarter of 2004, number of paid employees in this sector decreased 9.7 percent, while their average earnings for December 2005 increased by 13.7 percent to MOP 11,895.
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