HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS IN MANUFACTURING 30 COUNTRIES OR AREAS 40 MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES, SELECTED YEARS, 1975-2002 IRON AND STEEL INCLUDING FOUNDRIES (US SIC 331-2) 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 83 IRON AND STEEL INCLUDING FOUNDRIES (US SIC 331-2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 CANADA.................. .. .. 76 96 89 82 79 82 82 76 78 75 69 66 MEXICO.................. .. .. 13 14 17 17 10 10 12 12 13 15 15 15 JAPAN................... 50 53 51 93 116 122 127 109 100 92 103 104 84 75 KOREA................... 5 9 10 27 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. TAIWAN.................. 6 9 10 28 29 30 30 30 29 26 29 30 28 25 SWEDEN.................. 87 88 55 106 73 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, May 2004 HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS: IN U.S. DOLLARS PAGE 84 IRON AND STEEL INCLUDING FOUNDRIES (US SIC 331-2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COUNTRY OR AREA 1975 1980 1985 1990 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNITED STATES........... 9.42 15.85 19.40 21.83 25.32 26.29 27.03 26.71 26.73 26.75 27.46 28.58 31.13 32.18 CANADA.................. .. .. 14.81 21.00 22.64 21.52 21.44 22.03 21.87 20.41 21.40 21.46 21.40 21.37 MEXICO.................. .. .. 2.61 3.00 4.33 4.52 2.71 2.76 3.28 3.32 3.64 4.18 4.68 4.71 JAPAN................... 4.71 8.48 9.95 20.21 29.31 32.08 34.38 29.04 26.65 24.65 28.19 29.67 26.19 24.02 KOREA................... 0.49 1.42 1.97 5.92 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. TAIWAN.................. 0.54 1.45 1.99 6.04 7.40 7.76 8.11 7.89 7.78 7.06 7.88 8.69 8.84 8.04 SWEDEN.................. 8.21 13.89 10.73 23.04 18.58 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, May 2004 HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS: IN NATIONAL CURRENCY PAGE 85 IRON AND STEEL INCLUDING FOUNDRIES (US SIC 331-2) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COUNTRY OR AREA 1975 1980 1985 1990 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNITED STATES........... 9.42 15.85 19.40 21.83 25.32 26.29 27.03 26.71 26.73 26.75 27.46 28.58 31.13 32.18 CANADA.................. .. .. 20.23 24.50 29.21 29.40 29.44 30.05 30.29 30.29 31.79 31.89 33.15 33.55 MEXICO.................. .. .. 670.0 8427 #13.50 15.27 17.39 21.00 25.95 30.34 34.80 39.54 43.70 45.47 JAPAN................... 1397 1914 2374 2930 3256 3278 3230 3160 3228 3230 3205 3199 3185 3008 KOREA................... 237.9 859.9 1710 4188 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. TAIWAN.................. 20.66 52.10 79.15 162.7 195.6 205.5 214.8 216.7 224.1 236.7 254.8 271.8 298.9 277.6 SWEDEN.................. 34.02 58.73 92.29 136.5 144.9 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, May 2004