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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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