HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS IN MANUFACTURING 30 COUNTRIES OR AREAS 40 MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES, SELECTED YEARS, 1975-2002 LUMBER AND WOOD PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING (US SIC 24) IMPORTANT NOTE: DATA IN THE FOLLOWING TABLES ARE SUBJECT TO LIMITATIONS THAT ARE DESCRIBED IN THE INTRODUCTION AND IN THE COUNTRY NOTES. THE INTRODUCTION AND COUNTRY NOTES CAN BE ACCESSED AT: ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ForeignLabor/indnotes.txt. General Notes: The measures for total manufacturing were published in news release USDL 03-507, "International Comparisons of Hourly Compensation Costs for Production Workers in Manufacturing, 2002," September 26, 2003. The measures for individual manufacturing industries are less reliable than the total manufacturing data because there are more technical limitations associated with them. For more information about limitations, see the Technical Notes and Country Notes. The measures in these tables are shown according to the U.S. 1987 Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) for every U.S. two-digit level industry and selected three-digit industries. Data are also shown for two-digit level International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC) Rev. 2 industry groups. Currently, data are unavailable for the latest years for several countries in which there have been recent changes in wage surveys or in industrial classification. Additional revisions to this database will be made on an SIC basis. In the future, this database will be converted to a NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) basis. Note: Hourly compensation costs in national currency for countries that are members of the European Monetary Union (Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain) are expressed in the national currency used in each country prior to the implementation of the euro for 1975-1998, and in euros for 1999-2002. More information about national currency units and exchange rates used in these tables is on page 136. .. Data not available. # Break in series. Data are not comparable with data from the previous year. Prepared By: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Office of Productivity And Technology, May 18, 2004. HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS: INDEX U.S. = 100 PAGE 29 LUMBER AND WOOD PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING (US SIC 24) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COUNTRY OR AREA 1975 1980 1985 1990 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNITED STATES........... 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 BRAZIL.................. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 24 20 19 13 12 10 .. CANADA.................. .. .. 102 131 122 116 116 117 112 100 96 94 87 87 MEXICO.................. .. .. 11 8 12 11 7 7 7 7 8 9 10 10 JAPAN................... 43 51 46 87 119 131 144 123 111 97 110 111 94 90 KOREA................... 6 11 11 31 44 46 53 49 48 32 37 43 40 45 TAIWAN.................. 6 10 12 26 32 34 36 33 30 27 27 27 25 24 BELGIUM................. 113 140 77 145 152 161 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. FINLAND................. 76 90 67 160 118 #129 #162 154 136 136 129 112 112 116 FRANCE.................. 74 93 62 113 109 112 121 113 100 99 95 83 82 88 GREECE.................. 30 42 32 53 55 58 65 67 63 62 .. .. .. .. IRELAND................. .. .. .. .. .. .. 85 85 82 83 81 71 73 79 SWEDEN.................. 130 140 84 167 132 #137 153 167 149 142 135 121 107 116 SWITZERLAND............. 107 121 81 156 163 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, May 2004 HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS: IN U.S. DOLLARS PAGE 30 LUMBER AND WOOD PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING (US SIC 24) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COUNTRY OR AREA 1975 1980 1985 1990 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNITED STATES........... 5.22 8.40 10.68 11.90 12.78 12.97 13.33 13.79 14.18 14.56 15.02 15.59 16.13 16.50 BRAZIL.................. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 3.36 2.87 2.79 1.92 1.80 1.57 .. CANADA.................. .. .. 10.92 15.58 15.60 14.98 15.42 16.20 15.87 14.57 14.45 14.68 13.99 14.42 MEXICO.................. .. .. 1.19 0.96 1.49 1.43 0.88 0.92 1.03 1.04 1.16 1.34 1.53 1.63 JAPAN................... 2.26 4.31 4.88 10.32 15.23 17.03 19.23 16.93 15.67 14.19 16.49 17.37 15.09 14.85 KOREA................... 0.31 0.91 1.18 3.73 5.60 6.00 7.01 6.79 6.87 4.64 5.62 6.65 6.46 7.37 TAIWAN.................. 0.33 0.85 1.27 3.05 4.04 4.45 4.77 4.56 4.30 3.86 3.99 4.16 4.03 4.03 BELGIUM................. 5.88 11.78 8.18 17.21 19.47 20.84 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. FINLAND................. 3.97 7.57 7.16 19.07 15.14 #16.74 #21.61 21.19 19.26 19.87 19.34 17.52 18.04 19.19 FRANCE.................. 3.88 7.81 6.58 13.42 13.90 14.49 16.08 15.59 14.17 14.44 14.29 13.01 13.18 14.53 GREECE.................. 1.58 3.53 3.37 6.27 6.99 7.46 8.62 9.19 8.87 8.98 .. .. .. .. IRELAND................. .. .. .. .. .. .. 11.36 11.78 11.70 12.03 12.17 11.14 11.74 13.05 SWEDEN.................. 6.81 11.73 8.98 19.92 16.82 #17.78 20.41 23.07 21.16 20.69 20.29 18.90 17.29 19.18 SWITZERLAND............. 5.57 10.12 8.62 18.59 20.84 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, May 2004 HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS: IN NATIONAL CURRENCY PAGE 31 LUMBER AND WOOD PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING (US SIC 24) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COUNTRY OR AREA 1975 1980 1985 1990 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNITED STATES........... 5.22 8.40 10.68 11.90 12.78 12.97 13.33 13.79 14.18 14.56 15.02 15.59 16.13 16.50 BRAZIL.................. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 3.38 3.09 3.24 3.50 3.30 3.70 .. CANADA.................. .. .. 14.91 18.18 20.12 20.47 21.17 22.10 21.98 21.62 21.47 21.82 21.67 22.64 MEXICO.................. .. .. 305.0 2696 #4.63 4.82 5.66 7.00 8.17 9.54 11.12 12.69 14.32 15.74 JAPAN................... 671.1 972.1 1163 1497 1692 1741 1807 1842 1898 1859 1875 1873 1835 1859 KOREA................... 148.6 552.9 1027 2639 4498 4820 5410 5460 6533 6501 6686 7516 8347 9217 TAIWAN.................. 12.68 30.48 50.48 81.99 106.7 117.9 126.3 125.3 123.7 129.5 128.9 130.1 136.4 139.1 BELGIUM................. 215.8 344.0 485.1 575.2 673.4 696.5 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. FINLAND................. 14.56 28.15 44.40 73.02 86.65 #87.63 #94.55 97.38 100.1 106.3 #18.15 18.98 20.15 20.30 FRANCE.................. 16.60 32.96 59.13 73.09 78.75 80.38 80.16 79.75 82.76 85.22 #13.41 14.09 14.73 15.37 GREECE.................. 51.15 150.4 465.6 993.4 1602 1811 1997 2211 2424 2653 .. .. .. .. IRELAND................. .. .. .. .. .. .. 7.08 7.37 7.71 8.44 #11.42 12.06 13.12 13.81 SWEDEN.................. 28.20 49.59 77.27 118.0 131.1 #137.2 145.7 154.8 161.8 164.6 #167.9 173.4 178.8 186.4 SWITZERLAND............. 14.36 16.95 21.17 25.83 30.80 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, May 2004