HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS IN MANUFACTURING 33 COUNTRIES OR AREAS 22 MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES, 1992-2005 COMPUTER AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCT MANUFACTURING (NAICS 334) (1) IMPORTANT NOTE: DATA IN THE FOLLOWING TABLES ARE SUBJECT TO LIMITATIONS THAT ARE DESCRIBED IN THE INTRODUCTION. THE INTRODUCTION CAN BE ACCESSED AT: ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ForeignLabor/indnotesnaics.txt. General Notes: The measures for total manufacturing were published in news release USDL 06-2020, "International Comparisons of Hourly Compensation Costs for Production Workers in Manufacturing, 2005," November 30, 2006. For some countries, data for total manufacturing have been revised in these tables to reflect revisions subsequent to the news release. 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. The measures in these tables are shown according to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) for most NAICS 3-digit level industries; selected additional industry combinations are shown as well. These data as well as data on a U.S. 1987 Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) basis for selected years, 1975-2002, are available at https://www.bls.gov/fls. Note: Hourly compensation costs in national currency for countries that are members of the Euro area (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 1992-1998, and in euros for 1999-2005. More information about national currency units and exchange rates used in these tables is on page 6. Notations: .. 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, December 14, 2007. HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS: INDEX U.S. = 100 PAGE 58 COMPUTER AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCT MANUFACTURING (NAICS 334) (1) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COUNTRY OR AREA 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNITED STATES........... 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 BRAZIL.................. .. .. .. .. 42 42 42 26 32 24 20 16 18 25 MEXICO.................. 11 12 15 10 9 9 8 9 11 12 12 12 11 11 AUSTRALIA............... .. .. 87 104 116 102 82 85 73 62 66 81 92 84 ISRAEL.................. .. .. .. 83 84 84 83 83 80 85 72 68 63 59 KOREA, REPUBLIC OF...... .. 24 34 40 44 40 27 31 33 30 34 36 41 46 SINGAPORE (2)........... .. .. .. 39 41 38 33 30 31 29 24 25 25 25 TAIWAN.................. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 23 24 24 FINLAND................. 98 78 88 110 109 96 89 88 74 69 72 89 98 95 FRANCE.................. 108 96 97 108 103 88 87 84 74 72 74 88 95 92 GERMANY................. .. .. .. .. .. .. 123 117 101 94 97 114 119 112 IRELAND................. .. .. .. 76 79 69 67 62 57 59 59 72 83 77 ITALY................... 126 101 101 103 109 100 94 90 77 74 77 92 103 98 SPAIN................... 85 73 71 80 82 69 67 66 53 50 54 62 72 68 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) For NACE countries, Korea: includes office machinery; excludes reproduction of recorded media and measurement & navigation equipment. See technical notes. (2) Excludes reproduction of recorded media, measurement & navigation equipment, and watches & clocks. SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, December 2007 HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS: IN U.S. DOLLARS PAGE 59 COMPUTER AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCT MANUFACTURING (NAICS 334) (1) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COUNTRY OR AREA 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNITED STATES........... 16.48 16.97 17.32 17.37 17.92 18.80 19.54 19.99 20.83 21.99 23.25 24.08 25.00 26.63 BRAZIL.................. .. .. .. .. 7.55 7.92 8.18 5.14 6.59 5.38 4.55 3.84 4.46 6.67 MEXICO.................. 1.77 2.07 2.63 1.69 1.63 1.74 1.65 1.87 2.19 2.56 2.81 2.84 2.81 2.88 AUSTRALIA............... .. .. 15.08 18.04 20.81 19.17 16.11 16.92 15.17 13.64 15.36 19.55 22.98 22.27 ISRAEL.................. .. .. .. 14.50 15.01 15.75 16.31 16.65 16.70 18.75 16.70 16.37 15.83 15.83 KOREA, REPUBLIC OF...... .. 4.06 5.82 7.02 7.83 7.53 5.19 6.20 6.86 6.49 7.85 8.60 10.32 12.34 SINGAPORE (2)........... .. .. .. 6.70 7.28 7.15 6.49 6.03 6.43 6.30 5.69 6.12 6.36 6.68 TAIWAN.................. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 5.51 5.98 6.51 FINLAND................. 16.14 13.32 15.30 19.04 19.55 17.98 17.46 17.64 15.37 15.16 16.68 21.36 24.47 25.23 FRANCE.................. 17.72 16.33 16.82 18.76 18.50 16.61 16.93 16.77 15.33 15.74 17.14 21.12 23.86 24.49 GERMANY................. .. .. .. .. .. .. 24.12 23.32 21.06 20.77 22.47 27.33 29.69 29.92 IRELAND................. .. .. .. 13.29 14.13 12.89 13.04 12.38 11.80 12.87 13.73 17.29 20.83 20.39 ITALY................... 20.79 17.19 17.46 17.98 19.54 18.72 18.31 17.97 16.12 16.19 18.00 22.26 25.68 26.21 SPAIN................... 14.08 12.38 12.34 13.82 14.68 12.96 13.09 13.10 10.98 11.03 12.58 14.99 18.12 18.21 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) For NACE countries, Korea: includes office machinery; excludes reproduction of recorded media and measurement & navigation equipment. See technical notes. (2) Excludes reproduction of recorded media, measurement & navigation equipment, and watches & clocks. SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, December 2007 HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS: IN NATIONAL CURRENCY PAGE 60 COMPUTER AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCT MANUFACTURING (NAICS 334) (1) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COUNTRY OR AREA 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNITED STATES........... 16.48 16.97 17.32 17.37 17.92 18.80 19.54 19.99 20.83 21.99 23.25 24.08 25.00 26.63 BRAZIL.................. .. .. .. .. 7.58 8.54 9.50 9.36 12.06 12.66 13.29 11.81 13.05 16.24 MEXICO.................. 5484 #6.46 8.87 10.82 12.42 13.76 15.10 17.84 20.75 23.88 27.14 30.69 31.70 31.36 AUSTRALIA............... .. .. 20.61 24.36 26.57 25.78 25.61 26.21 26.09 26.40 28.24 29.96 31.21 29.19 ISRAEL.................. .. .. .. 43.65 47.90 54.32 61.96 68.94 68.08 78.86 79.14 74.56 70.96 71.03 KOREA, REPUBLIC OF...... .. 3255 4680 5412 6300 7163 7261 7380 7755 8384 9813 10248 11820 12631 SINGAPORE (2)........... .. .. .. 9.49 10.27 10.62 10.85 10.22 11.10 11.29 10.19 10.67 10.75 11.11 TAIWAN.................. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 189.5 199.6 209.2 FINLAND................. 72.42 76.24 80.06 83.32 89.84 93.44 93.35 #16.56 16.64 16.94 17.64 18.87 19.67 20.26 FRANCE.................. 93.80 92.54 93.30 93.52 94.67 97.00 99.91 #15.75 16.61 17.58 18.13 18.66 19.18 19.67 GERMANY................. .. .. .. .. .. .. 42.45 #21.89 22.82 23.21 23.77 24.14 23.87 24.04 IRELAND................. .. .. .. 8.29 8.83 8.50 9.15 #11.63 12.78 14.38 14.52 15.27 16.75 16.38 ITALY................... 25617 27035 28135 29289 30155 31904 31811 #16.87 17.46 18.08 19.05 19.66 20.65 21.06 SPAIN................... 1442 1579 1653 1722 1860 1899 1956 #12.30 11.89 12.32 13.31 13.24 14.57 14.62 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) For NACE countries, Korea: includes office machinery; excludes reproduction of recorded media and measurement & navigation equipment. See technical notes. (2) Excludes reproduction of recorded media, measurement & navigation equipment, and watches & clocks. SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, December 2007