Statistics

Macao wholesale, retail sector employees up 12% in Q4

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-03-16 10:29

MACAO - The number of paid employees of Macao's wholesale and retail trade reached 29,211 at the end of last year, an increase of 12.3 percent over the same period of the previous year, according to the results of a survey released Monday by Macao's Statistics and Census Service (DSEC).

The survey showed that the average earnings (excluding bonuses and allowances) for full-time employees of the wholesale and retail trade rose by 5.7 percent year-on-year to 9,090 patacas ($1, 151) in December 2009, with sales representatives and salespersons earning 12,070 patacas and 7,510 patacas respectively on average.

At the end of December 2009, wholesale and retail trade reported 3,380 vacancies, substantially going up by 95.6 percent year-on-year.

The Survey on manpower needs and wages for the fourth quarter of 2009 not only covered the wholesale and retail trade, but the transport, storage and communications, security activities and public sewage and refuse disposal activities, excluding own- account workers. Results of the survey were extrapolated according to the information collected from 889 statistical units successfully interviewed.

Contrary to the wholesale and retail trade, transport, storage and communications, security activities, public sewage and refuse disposal activities, registered decreases in the number of paid employees in the fourth quarter of last year, at the year-on-year rates of two percent, 4.1 percent, 5.3 percent respectively, according to the survey.

In terms of recruitment prerequisites, 57.3 percent of the vacancies in wholesale and retail trade and 55.8 percent of those in the transport, storage and communications sector required working experience.

Meanwhile, a high level of employee turnover was also observed in security activities in the period, where the employee turnover rate, recruitment rate and job vacancy rate respectively stood at 10.6 percent, 10.4 percent and 13.6 percent respectively, higher than those in other sectors, according to the DSEC survey.