Number of Macao's gaming industry employees surges 22.9%
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-03-28 11:17
Updated: 2008-03-28 11:17
A survey result released on Thursday showed that at the end of last year, there were 44,743 paid employees engaged in Macao Special Administrative Region's gaming industry, an increase of 22.9 percent year-on-year.
Among the employees, 30,486 were engaged in positions that are directly related to betting services, such as hard and soft count clerks, casino floor persons, dealers, while 5,341 were working as casino and slot machine attendants or hosts, security and surveillance workers, and etc., according to the result of the Survey on Manpower Needs and Wages of the Gaming Industry, which was launched by Macao's Statistics and Census Services (DSEC).
For the time being, there were a total of 29 casinos in the island city of merely 538,000 residents, and its gaming revenues in 2007 amounted to over 83 billion patacas (around $10.3 billion).
The survey result also showed that in December 2007, average monthly earnings (excluding bonuses and allowances) for full-time employees in local gaming industry rose by 6.6 percent year-on-year to 14,899 patacas ($1,862).
Despite the relatively high satisfaction with their salary, gaming industry employees still showed low confidence toward the local employment market and their career prospects, according to the Macao Employment Confidence and Satisfaction Indices released Wednesday by the Macao University of Science and Technology (MUST).
The MUST survey covered some 1,080 local full-time employees, among which 228 were engaged in the city's gaming sector.
Gaming employees did not feel they enjoy Macao's economic boom and news reports also indicated that the gaming industry has saturated in terms of human resources demands, both of which have led to the low employee confidence toward the employment market, said Chen Nai Chi, Registrar of MUST, at a previous press conference.
At the end of December 2007, Macao's gaming industry reported 3,411 vacant posts, a decrease of 2,220 from the same period of the previous year, according to the DSEC survey result.
Chen proposed that with ever increasing gaming receipts, the casinos in Macao should pay more attention to their employees' living quality and individual career development.
Among the employees, 30,486 were engaged in positions that are directly related to betting services, such as hard and soft count clerks, casino floor persons, dealers, while 5,341 were working as casino and slot machine attendants or hosts, security and surveillance workers, and etc., according to the result of the Survey on Manpower Needs and Wages of the Gaming Industry, which was launched by Macao's Statistics and Census Services (DSEC).
For the time being, there were a total of 29 casinos in the island city of merely 538,000 residents, and its gaming revenues in 2007 amounted to over 83 billion patacas (around $10.3 billion).
The survey result also showed that in December 2007, average monthly earnings (excluding bonuses and allowances) for full-time employees in local gaming industry rose by 6.6 percent year-on-year to 14,899 patacas ($1,862).
Despite the relatively high satisfaction with their salary, gaming industry employees still showed low confidence toward the local employment market and their career prospects, according to the Macao Employment Confidence and Satisfaction Indices released Wednesday by the Macao University of Science and Technology (MUST).
The MUST survey covered some 1,080 local full-time employees, among which 228 were engaged in the city's gaming sector.
Gaming employees did not feel they enjoy Macao's economic boom and news reports also indicated that the gaming industry has saturated in terms of human resources demands, both of which have led to the low employee confidence toward the employment market, said Chen Nai Chi, Registrar of MUST, at a previous press conference.
At the end of December 2007, Macao's gaming industry reported 3,411 vacant posts, a decrease of 2,220 from the same period of the previous year, according to the DSEC survey result.
Chen proposed that with ever increasing gaming receipts, the casinos in Macao should pay more attention to their employees' living quality and individual career development.
|
||