HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS IN MANUFACTURING 30 COUNTRIES OR AREAS 40 MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES, SELECTED YEARS, 1975-2002 CHEMICALS AND ALLIED PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING (US SIC 28) 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 47 CHEMICALS AND ALLIED PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING (US SIC 28) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.................. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 39 38 37 23 23 18 .. CANADA.................. .. .. 71 89 85 79 75 74 71 68 64 60 57 58 MEXICO.................. .. .. 13 14 20 20 13 13 14 14 16 18 20 19 JAPAN................... 58 71 61 106 137 148 162 135 123 108 122 124 106 101 KOREA................... 7 12 11 27 33 36 42 44 40 27 38 41 38 42 TAIWAN.................. 7 11 13 27 31 32 35 35 33 28 30 31 30 27 BELGIUM................. 105 135 67 129 134 143 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. DENMARK................. 89 97 54 100 96 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. FRANCE (1).............. 72 92 53 91 88 90 98 94 83 82 79 69 68 71 GERMANY, FORMER WEST.... 99 118 68 135 140 146 167 158 136 129 123 109 104 110 GERMANY, UNIFIED........ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 125 119 105 101 106 GREECE.................. 24 35 24 40 35 37 42 42 38 36 .. .. .. .. IRELAND................. 48 64 47 76 70 72 77 77 75 70 67 59 61 68 ITALY................... 77 83 52 107 86 85 82 89 82 77 73 61 57 59 NETHERLANDS (1)......... 104 117 63 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. SPAIN................... .. .. .. 71 61 60 65 69 60 60 59 48 49 52 SWEDEN.................. 99 109 62 114 86 #93 103 114 101 98 95 84 75 82 UNITED KINGDOM.......... 50 71 45 77 68 69 70 67 76 79 78 72 68 71 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Excluding synthetic fibers. SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, May 2004 HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS: IN U.S. DOLLARS PAGE 48 CHEMICALS AND ALLIED PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING (US SIC 28) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COUNTRY OR AREA 1975 1980 1985 1990 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNITED STATES........... 7.20 11.57 16.07 19.10 21.22 21.71 22.29 23.12 23.68 24.39 24.81 25.79 26.69 27.60 BRAZIL.................. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 8.93 9.06 9.00 5.74 5.82 4.74 .. CANADA.................. .. .. 11.46 16.98 18.02 17.11 16.63 17.02 16.89 16.50 15.75 15.44 15.24 15.94 MEXICO.................. .. .. 2.14 2.60 4.29 4.42 2.83 2.97 3.43 3.47 3.88 4.55 5.23 5.30 JAPAN................... 4.16 8.26 9.81 20.27 29.10 32.20 36.12 31.22 29.09 26.37 30.28 32.06 28.37 27.94 KOREA................... 0.50 1.43 1.83 5.12 6.91 7.80 9.29 10.07 9.58 6.69 9.33 10.66 10.18 11.68 TAIWAN.................. 0.52 1.31 2.03 5.19 6.53 6.95 7.81 8.04 7.76 6.92 7.52 7.95 7.88 7.43 BELGIUM................. 7.55 15.66 10.84 24.65 28.39 31.12 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. DENMARK................. 6.41 11.23 8.68 19.13 20.39 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. FRANCE (1).............. 5.21 10.63 8.55 17.45 18.66 19.46 21.93 21.71 19.68 19.99 19.56 17.80 18.06 19.65 GERMANY, FORMER WEST.... 7.15 13.60 10.96 25.83 29.74 31.69 37.16 36.64 32.24 31.49 30.53 28.12 27.87 30.36 GERMANY, UNIFIED........ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 30.40 29.46 27.16 26.93 29.31 GREECE.................. 1.76 4.08 3.85 7.57 7.53 8.13 9.40 9.66 9.05 8.80 .. .. .. .. IRELAND................. 3.47 7.45 7.49 14.58 14.79 15.73 17.18 17.79 17.71 16.97 16.63 15.25 16.32 18.70 ITALY................... 5.52 9.56 8.33 20.35 18.20 18.35 18.38 20.55 19.32 18.83 18.12 15.64 15.22 16.37 NETHERLANDS (1)......... 7.47 13.59 10.17 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. SPAIN................... .. .. .. 13.53 13.00 12.97 14.48 16.03 14.20 14.74 14.54 12.42 13.02 14.47 SWEDEN.................. 7.13 12.67 9.96 21.72 18.19 #20.17 23.00 26.26 23.92 23.81 23.45 21.71 20.13 22.61 UNITED KINGDOM.......... 3.63 8.22 7.23 14.66 14.39 14.94 15.61 15.54 18.08 19.20 19.45 18.51 18.17 19.56 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Excluding synthetic fibers. SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, May 2004 HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS: IN NATIONAL CURRENCY PAGE 49 CHEMICALS AND ALLIED PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING (US SIC 28) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COUNTRY OR AREA 1975 1980 1985 1990 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNITED STATES........... 7.20 11.57 16.07 19.10 21.22 21.71 22.29 23.12 23.68 24.39 24.81 25.79 26.69 27.60 BRAZIL.................. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 8.98 9.76 10.45 10.45 10.66 11.14 .. CANADA.................. .. .. 15.65 19.81 23.24 23.37 22.84 23.22 23.39 24.49 23.41 22.94 23.60 25.03 MEXICO.................. .. .. 549.9 7308 #13.37 14.93 18.18 22.54 27.18 31.75 37.08 43.07 48.84 51.23 JAPAN................... 1235 1864 2339 2939 3233 3291 3394 3397 3523 3455 3443 3456 3450 3498 KOREA................... 243.0 868.9 1596 3624 5544 6266 7163 8102 9111 9368 11106 12053 13157 14596 TAIWAN.................. 19.85 47.21 80.77 139.7 172.5 183.9 207.0 220.9 223.4 232.2 242.9 248.4 266.4 256.7 BELGIUM................. 277.1 457.3 643.5 823.7 981.8 1040 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. DENMARK................. 36.77 63.19 92.04 118.4 132.2 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. FRANCE (1).............. 22.32 44.84 76.76 95.07 105.8 107.9 109.3 111.1 114.9 117.9 #18.37 19.28 20.17 20.79 GERMANY, FORMER WEST.... 17.55 24.68 32.25 41.77 49.22 51.40 53.22 55.15 55.94 55.42 #28.66 30.46 31.14 32.11 GERMANY, UNIFIED........ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 53.50 #27.66 29.42 30.08 31.00 GREECE.................. 56.88 173.8 531.4 1200 1727 1973 2179 2326 2471 2601 .. .. .. .. IRELAND................. 1.56 3.62 7.03 8.80 10.10 10.51 10.71 11.12 11.68 11.91 #15.61 16.52 18.23 19.79 ITALY................... 3601 8173 15904 24380 28636 29557 29946 31704 32920 32711 #17.01 16.94 17.00 17.31 NETHERLANDS (1)......... 18.85 26.98 33.75 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. SPAIN................... .. .. .. 1380 1657 1737 1805 2031 2081 2201 #13.64 13.45 14.54 15.31 SWEDEN.................. 29.53 53.57 85.68 128.7 141.8 #155.6 164.3 176.2 182.9 189.4 #194.1 199.1 208.1 219.8 UNITED KINGDOM.......... 1.63 3.54 5.57 8.22 9.58 9.75 9.89 9.96 11.04 11.59 12.03 12.21 12.62 13.03 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Excluding synthetic fibers. SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, May 2004