HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS IN MANUFACTURING 30 COUNTRIES OR AREAS 40 MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES, SELECTED YEARS, 1975-2002 RUBBER AND PLASTICS PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING (US SIC 30) 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 56 RUBBER AND PLASTICS PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING (US SIC 30) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.................. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 38 35 32 19 20 16 .. CANADA.................. .. .. 84 102 97 94 90 93 90 81 77 .. .. .. MEXICO.................. .. .. 15 12 17 16 9 9 10 10 11 12 12 12 ISRAEL.................. 35 40 31 59 54 60 68 71 75 72 68 71 69 60 JAPAN................... 49 58 50 92 123 137 149 128 118 106 117 119 99 94 KOREA................... 5 9 9 25 36 39 45 48 45 30 37 39 35 38 TAIWAN.................. 6 10 12 26 33 34 35 35 33 29 30 30 27 26 BELGIUM................. 110 141 73 137 141 150 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. DENMARK................. 100 115 69 135 132 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. FRANCE.................. 75 96 62 111 108 110 120 114 100 99 94 81 78 84 GERMANY, FORMER WEST.... 101 126 75 146 149 157 180 170 146 141 133 117 110 116 GERMANY, UNIFIED........ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 137 129 113 106 112 GREECE.................. 26 38 30 50 48 51 58 58 51 50 .. .. .. .. IRELAND................. 64 72 54 92 83 85 92 89 84 80 78 67 64 70 ITALY................... 88 101 68 138 109 110 109 115 106 101 95 80 75 79 NETHERLANDS............. 113 132 72 129 128 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. SPAIN (1)............... .. .. .. 89 83 82 89 91 79 80 76 66 59 63 SWEDEN.................. 112 129 78 150 111 #122 134 148 131 126 120 108 93 99 SWITZERLAND............. 100 115 77 145 143 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. UNITED KINGDOM.......... 57 82 50 89 78 80 83 81 87 90 90 84 78 83 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Excluding footwear. SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, May 2004 HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS: IN U.S. DOLLARS PAGE 57 RUBBER AND PLASTICS PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING (US SIC 30) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COUNTRY OR AREA 1975 1980 1985 1990 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNITED STATES........... 5.87 9.03 11.70 13.50 14.80 14.88 15.18 15.68 16.20 16.61 17.19 17.73 18.75 19.29 BRAZIL.................. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 5.93 5.73 5.38 3.34 3.55 2.98 .. CANADA.................. .. .. 9.81 13.78 14.29 13.96 13.65 14.66 14.63 13.45 13.30 .. .. .. MEXICO.................. .. .. 1.76 1.58 2.50 2.38 1.44 1.40 1.60 1.63 1.88 2.20 2.30 2.31 ISRAEL.................. 2.07 3.62 3.61 7.99 8.00 8.99 10.30 11.11 12.17 11.94 11.74 12.61 12.94 11.53 JAPAN................... 2.90 5.25 5.86 12.40 18.25 20.38 22.65 20.01 19.15 17.54 20.04 21.07 18.47 18.08 KOREA................... 0.30 0.83 1.05 3.44 5.30 5.80 6.89 7.54 7.27 5.03 6.30 6.84 6.64 7.31 TAIWAN.................. 0.34 0.92 1.36 3.51 4.92 5.00 5.37 5.46 5.31 4.78 5.18 5.37 5.15 5.09 BELGIUM................. 6.45 12.70 8.54 18.43 20.84 22.30 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. DENMARK................. 5.86 10.35 8.05 18.23 19.47 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. FRANCE.................. 4.39 8.64 7.20 15.01 15.99 16.38 18.20 17.82 16.22 16.44 16.07 14.43 14.68 16.12 GERMANY, FORMER WEST.... 5.95 11.39 8.75 19.76 22.05 23.31 27.35 26.71 23.62 23.47 22.84 20.74 20.54 22.36 GERMANY, UNIFIED........ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 22.71 22.09 20.05 19.89 21.67 GREECE.................. 1.51 3.46 3.56 6.68 7.12 7.55 8.82 9.10 8.33 8.25 .. .. .. .. IRELAND................. 3.76 6.52 6.26 12.36 12.27 12.65 14.01 14.00 13.58 13.36 13.40 11.89 12.02 13.44 ITALY................... 5.15 9.14 7.91 18.64 16.16 16.37 16.49 18.03 17.22 16.77 16.29 14.25 13.97 15.18 NETHERLANDS............. 6.65 11.93 8.38 17.47 18.96 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. SPAIN (1)............... .. .. .. 11.98 12.29 12.22 13.45 14.31 12.83 13.30 13.08 11.72 11.04 12.16 SWEDEN.................. 6.58 11.63 9.07 20.24 16.41 #18.12 20.33 23.15 21.17 21.00 20.59 19.23 17.52 19.06 SWITZERLAND............. 5.86 10.35 9.02 19.54 21.23 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. UNITED KINGDOM.......... 3.32 7.39 5.81 11.99 11.61 11.91 12.56 12.77 14.05 15.03 15.49 14.95 14.62 16.00 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Excluding footwear. SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, May 2004 HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS: IN NATIONAL CURRENCY PAGE 58 RUBBER AND PLASTICS PRODUCTS MANUFACTURING (US SIC 30) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COUNTRY OR AREA 1975 1980 1985 1990 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNITED STATES........... 5.87 9.03 11.70 13.50 14.80 14.88 15.18 15.68 16.20 16.61 17.19 17.73 18.75 19.29 BRAZIL.................. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 5.96 6.17 6.24 6.08 6.49 7.01 .. CANADA.................. .. .. 13.40 16.08 18.44 19.07 18.74 20.00 20.27 19.96 19.77 .. .. .. MEXICO.................. .. .. 451.6 4438 #7.79 8.03 9.22 10.65 12.63 14.93 17.99 20.78 21.48 22.31 ISRAEL.................. 1.33 18.55 #4.26 16.10 22.63 27.08 31.01 35.47 41.97 45.39 48.61 51.43 54.43 54.65 JAPAN................... 861.1 1185 1397 1799 2027 2083 2128 2177 2319 2298 2278 2272 2246 2264 KOREA................... 146.2 506.4 917.6 2434 4251 4662 5312 6066 6912 7035 7501 7736 8576 9138 TAIWAN.................. 12.74 33.10 54.10 94.46 130.0 132.2 142.2 150.0 152.9 160.2 167.3 168.0 174.0 175.8 BELGIUM................. 236.8 370.8 506.9 615.8 720.6 745.6 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. DENMARK................. 33.58 58.28 85.37 112.9 126.3 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. FRANCE.................. 18.81 36.45 64.61 81.74 90.59 90.87 90.76 91.19 94.73 97.01 #15.08 15.63 16.40 17.05 GERMANY, FORMER WEST.... 14.60 20.68 25.73 31.95 36.49 37.81 39.17 40.20 40.98 41.30 #21.44 22.47 22.95 23.66 GERMANY, UNIFIED........ .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 39.97 #20.74 21.72 22.22 22.92 GREECE.................. 48.64 147.4 491.1 1059 1632 1832 2044 2191 2275 2439 .. .. .. .. IRELAND................. 1.69 3.17 5.88 7.46 8.38 8.45 8.73 8.75 8.96 9.38 #12.58 12.88 13.43 14.22 ITALY................... 3362 7816 15092 22326 25421 26365 26863 27814 29343 29122 #15.29 15.43 15.61 16.05 NETHERLANDS............. 16.77 23.68 27.79 31.82 35.22 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. SPAIN (1)............... .. .. .. 1222 1567 1636 1676 1813 1880 1986 #12.27 12.69 12.33 12.86 SWEDEN.................. 27.25 49.19 78.06 119.9 128.0 #139.8 145.2 155.3 161.8 167.0 #170.4 176.4 181.1 185.2 SWITZERLAND............. 15.11 17.34 22.14 27.17 31.38 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. UNITED KINGDOM.......... 1.49 3.18 4.48 6.72 7.73 7.77 7.96 8.18 8.58 9.07 9.58 9.86 10.16 10.66 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Excluding footwear. SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, May 2004