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Following is a question by the Hon Kwok Wai-keung and a written reply by the Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Professor K C Chan, in the Legislative Council today (June 8):
Question:
Will the Government inform this Council, in each of the past five years, of the respective employment figures in, as well as Nominal Wage Indices, Real Wage Indices and Nominal Indices of Payroll per Person Engaged (adopting the first quarter of 2004 as the base period, i.e. first quarter of 2004 = 100) for, the various industries and trades in Hong Kong?
Reply:
President,
The numbers of employed persons in, as well as the nominal and real wage indices for, the various industries and occupations in Hong Kong in each of the past five years (i.e. from 2011 to 2015) are set out in Table 1 and Table 2 of Annex respectively, whereas the nominal indices of payroll per person engaged for selected industries during the same period are set out in Table 3 of Annex. The Government has not compiled nominal indices of payroll per person engaged for different occupations.
Ends/Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Issued at HKT 14:31
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