}
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Table 12
Average wage per wage earner
Territory
Date
In-local
currency
The
1976
Philippines
300 pesos per month (excluding fringe
benefits)
(or about 13 pesos
per day)
In HK$- equivalent*
$173 per month (or about $7.5 per
day)
(1 pe so-HK$0.575)
Source
Data supplied by the Institute of Re search and Manpower Study of the Department of
· Labour
Singapore
1976
$$78 per week
(or about $14
per day)
$149 per week (or about $27 per
day)
(S$1=HK$1.905) -
Annual Report 1976, published by the Ministry of Labour, Singapore
Thailand
1975
27.66 Baht per day
$6.82 per day
benefits)
(excluding fringe
(an average of wages
in four representat- ive manufacturing activities)
(1 Baht HK$0.2465)
Estimates of the Labour Research and Statistics Division, Department of Labour, Thailand
*Based on the exchange rates as at the end of month/year quoted
in the second column, as provided by the Census and Statistics Department.
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