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Table 12 Average wages in manufacturing industries

-Average wage per wage earner

Territory

Date

Source

In local

currency

In HK$ equivalent*

Hong Kong

Mar. 1977

Sept. 1976

į

Sept. 1975

Indonesia

October 1977

Korea

March 1976

-(Republic

of)

$29.50 per day (excluding fringe benefits) Wages Statistics, $34.18 per day (including fringe benefits) published by the

Census and $28.04 per day (excluding fringe benefits)

Statistics. $32.05 per day (including fringe benefits)

Department $24.15 per day (excluding fringe benefits, $27.86 per day (including fringe benefits)

Rupiah 25,000 - 33,000 per month for metropolitan Jakarta (or about Rupiah 1,100 - 1,400 per day)

47,619 Won per month

(or about 1,900 Won per day)

$250-330 per month (or about $11-14

per day)

(1 Rupiah-HK$0.011)

$465 per month (or about $18.50

per day)

(1 Won HK$0.009758)

Estimates of the Ministry of Manpower, Indonesia

Year Book of Labour Statistics 1976, published by the ILO

Malaysia

July 1975

-

M$4 8.5 per day

$8.1 17.21 per day

$370 592 per month

MS174 month

278 per

(MB1 = HK$2.025)

Handbook of Labour Statistics 1975, Ministry of Labour and Man-

power, Malaysia

*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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