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Average payroll includes wages as well as all other irregular receipts such as bonuses and overtime payment. A spokesman for the department pointed out that statistics on average payroll tend to show larger quarter-to-quarter changes, affected by the number of hours actually worked and the timing of payment of bonuses and back-pay.

Detailed breakdowns of the above statistics are published in the "Quarterly Report of Employment, Vacancies and Payroll Statistics, December 1994". The report will be available for sale at $24 per copy at the Government Publications Centre, Queensway Government Offices, Low Block, Ground Floor, 66 Queensway, Hong Kong and at the Publications Section of Census and Statistics Department, 19th floor, Wanchai Tower, 12 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

For enquiries about statistics on average payroll per person engaged, please contact the Census and Statistics Department on tel 2582 5076.

Year-on-Year Change in Average Payroll Per Person Engaged by Selected Industry Sector

% change for December 1994

over December 1993

Selected Industry Sector

in nominal terms

in real terms

Manufacturing

+15.3

+5.8

Wholesale, Retail and Import/Export

Trades, Restaurants and Hotels

+11.8

+2.6

Transport, Storage and Communication

+24.5

+14.2

Financing. Insurance, Real Estate and

Business Services

+2.1

-6.4

Community, Social and Personal Services

+14.8

+5.3

All Industry Sectors

+14.3

+4.8

End/Friday, April 21, 1995