EU business report - clothing & hotel personnel costs average lowest in 2002
07 Mar '06
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The new edition of European business - facts and figures1, published by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities states that average personnel costs were lowest in 2002 in the Clothing and the Hotel and restaurant industries (both 15 thousand euro per employee), and highest in Refineries (60 thousand euro) and Chemicals (46 thousand euro).
The energy related sectors, Refineries (165 thousand euro), Electricity, gas and water (109 thousand euro) and Mining and quarrying (102 thousand euro), were the sectors with the highest apparent labour productivity6, compared to an average for the non-financial business economy of 41 thousand euro.
Manufacture of chemicals, rubber and plastic products The EU25 chemicals7, rubber and plastics sector accounted for 14 percent of industrial value added in 2002 and 10 percent of the industrial workforce (in 2001).
EU25 value added was 244 billion euro in 2002, with chemicals accounting for just over 70 percent, plastics and rubber the remaining 30 percent. Germany was the leading producer of chemicals, rubber and plastics, with a 25 percent share of EU25 value added in 2002, followed by the United Kingdom and France (15 percent each).
The sector employed 3.6 million persons in the EU25, with chemicals accounting for 54 percent, and rubber and plastics 46 percent.
Average personnel costs varied by a factor of around fifteen among the Member States, with an average of 46 thousand euro for chemicals and 31 thousand euro for rubber and plastic products.
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