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More paid employees engaged in gaming industry in June PDF Print E-mail
Tuesday, 30 September 2008

45,621 paid employees engaged in the Gaming Industry, up by 1.3 percent year-on-year, has reported by the Statistics and Census Service on a Survey on Manpower Needs and Wages of the Gaming Industry for the second quarter of 2008. Analyzed by occupation that are directly related to betting services, 19,183 were dealers and 11,604 were engaged in positions such as hard and soft count clerks, cage cashiers, pit bosses, casino floorpersons, betting service operators, among others, up by 10.9 percent and 22.4 percent respectively year-on-year. Meanwhile, 5,348 were working as casino and slot machine attendants/hosts, security and surveillance workers, down by 17.5 percent from a year earlier.
In June 2008, average earnings (excluding bonuses and allowances) for full-time employees in the Gaming Industry rose by 7.4 percent year-on-year to MOP 15,565. Average earnings for dealers grew by 0.3 percent over June 2007 to MOP 13,776, while that for employees in positions such as hard and soft count clerks, cage cashiers, pit bosses, casino floorpersons, betting service operators, stood at MOP 18,807, up by 8.9 percent. The average earnings for services and sales workers, including casino and slot machine attendants/hosts, security and surveillance workers, etc. reported a year-on-year increase of 14.8 percent to MOP 9,180.
At the end of June 2008, the Gaming Industry reported 764 vacant posts, a decrease of 4,348 or -85.1 percent from a year earlier. Of these vacancies, 105 were for dealers, 161 for hard and soft count clerks, cage cashiers, pit bosses, casino floorpersons, betting service operators, and so on and 196 for services and sales workers.
In terms of recruitment prerequisites, 58.5 percent of the vacancies required working experience and 79.6 percent required senior secondary or higher education. Besides Cantonese, other preferred language skills were Mandarin (83.9 percent) and English (86.1 percent). Survey coverage excluded junket promoters and junket associates.

 

 

 
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