HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS IN MANUFACTURING 33 COUNTRIES OR AREAS 22 MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES, 1992-2005 PRIMARY METAL MANUFACTURING (NAICS 331) (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 46 PRIMARY METAL MANUFACTURING (NAICS 331) (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.................. .. .. .. .. 44 43 39 24 25 20 17 17 22 25 CANADA.................. 115 109 101 100 100 97 88 92 88 84 83 92 101 109 MEXICO.................. 15 16 17 10 10 11 10 11 12 13 13 12 13 13 AUSTRALIA............... .. .. 82 85 89 91 82 86 74 67 72 87 101 104 ISRAEL.................. 32 32 32 37 39 41 40 38 40 41 34 34 36 35 JAPAN................... 112 127 137 145 121 110 99 116 119 101 91 95 104 104 KOREA, REPUBLIC OF...... .. 39 40 44 49 43 29 34 53 30 35 38 44 57 TAIWAN.................. 35 33 36 35 33 33 29 34 34 32 27 28 31 31 AUSTRIA................. 115 112 116 134 128 112 110 108 93 91 93 110 122 124 BELGIUM................. .. .. .. 147 145 127 125 122 105 98 103 120 133 133 DENMARK................. 92 87 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. FINLAND................. 100 83 94 118 113 103 100 98 89 84 89 103 115 115 FRANCE.................. 96 89 91 99 95 84 82 80 69 67 70 83 93 93 GERMANY................. .. .. .. .. .. .. 120 116 101 95 99 115 125 124 GREECE.................. 58 52 52 60 60 57 48 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. IRELAND................. 86 77 73 73 77 78 75 74 59 57 61 70 77 80 ITALY................... 110 89 89 90 97 92 87 84 70 67 70 82 92 92 LUXEMBOURG.............. .. .. .. .. 114 103 103 108 95 86 86 100 111 114 NETHERLANDS............. 117 111 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. NORWAY.................. 119 101 105 118 120 113 112 111 100 101 117 133 148 154 POLAND.................. .. .. .. .. .. 17 18 17 15 17 17 17 19 22 SPAIN................... 88 73 72 78 77 71 73 71 61 57 59 73 82 83 SWEDEN.................. 121 88 91 104 117 108 107 105 95 84 88 105 118 115 UNITED KINGDOM.......... 76 65 67 69 70 79 84 84 81 72 73 82 92 94 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) For NACE countries, Brazil, Korea: excludes manufacture of wire products and uranium processing and refining. See technical notes. SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, December 2007 HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS: IN U.S. DOLLARS PAGE 47 PRIMARY METAL MANUFACTURING (NAICS 331) (1) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COUNTRY OR AREA 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNITED STATES........... 20.84 21.41 21.75 22.38 22.87 23.07 23.65 23.63 24.64 25.76 26.89 28.00 28.32 29.03 BRAZIL.................. .. .. .. .. 10.08 9.93 9.24 5.61 6.25 5.23 4.66 4.79 6.16 7.33 CANADA.................. 23.92 23.39 22.04 22.31 22.79 22.45 20.87 21.84 21.78 21.66 22.22 25.83 28.72 31.59 MEXICO.................. 3.12 3.36 3.76 2.33 2.27 2.48 2.44 2.60 2.93 3.30 3.52 3.50 3.55 3.86 AUSTRALIA............... .. .. 17.84 19.08 20.45 20.92 19.38 20.24 18.33 17.27 19.30 24.44 28.69 30.34 ISRAEL.................. 6.69 6.75 7.01 8.36 8.85 9.50 9.48 9.01 9.89 10.60 9.06 9.62 10.22 10.02 JAPAN................... 23.35 27.12 29.78 32.38 27.73 25.32 23.41 27.35 29.26 26.01 24.48 26.55 29.58 30.32 KOREA, REPUBLIC OF...... .. 8.26 8.69 9.89 11.23 10.02 6.87 8.01 13.16 7.82 9.43 10.55 12.59 16.54 TAIWAN.................. 7.27 7.06 7.92 7.82 7.63 7.52 6.76 7.94 8.27 8.27 7.38 7.93 8.68 8.96 AUSTRIA................. 24.03 23.95 25.31 29.99 29.27 25.78 26.03 25.63 22.90 23.34 24.98 30.72 34.45 35.97 BELGIUM................. .. .. .. 32.93 33.05 29.23 29.51 28.80 25.95 25.32 27.64 33.65 37.78 38.71 DENMARK................. 19.19 18.70 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. FINLAND................. 20.90 17.86 20.54 26.30 25.73 23.75 23.68 23.20 21.97 21.59 23.88 28.92 32.66 33.25 FRANCE.................. 20.04 19.11 19.73 22.07 21.73 19.32 19.43 18.86 16.96 17.30 18.85 23.26 26.28 27.10 GERMANY................. .. .. .. .. .. .. 28.42 27.30 24.81 24.52 26.49 32.30 35.50 36.03 GREECE.................. 12.11 11.15 11.41 13.36 13.61 13.15 11.40 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. IRELAND................. 17.91 16.44 15.80 16.37 17.68 18.00 17.80 17.40 14.59 14.80 16.51 19.64 21.87 23.10 ITALY................... 22.91 18.99 19.29 20.14 22.12 21.17 20.51 19.78 17.36 17.23 18.73 22.95 26.17 26.69 LUXEMBOURG.............. .. .. .. .. 26.18 23.82 24.40 25.52 23.46 22.04 23.21 28.04 31.52 33.04 NETHERLANDS............. 24.31 23.77 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. NORWAY.................. 24.84 21.71 22.94 26.34 27.51 26.01 26.52 26.30 24.61 26.06 31.41 37.23 41.87 44.71 POLAND.................. .. .. .. .. .. 3.97 4.23 3.98 3.78 4.38 4.45 4.84 5.46 6.41 SPAIN................... 18.27 15.63 15.57 17.43 17.62 16.32 17.15 16.89 15.03 14.65 15.99 20.45 23.31 24.08 SWEDEN.................. 25.30 18.77 19.73 23.23 26.79 24.91 25.24 24.73 23.33 21.54 23.79 29.48 33.42 33.50 UNITED KINGDOM.......... 15.90 13.87 14.52 15.51 16.07 18.16 19.84 19.88 19.87 18.66 19.74 23.04 26.16 27.43 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) For NACE countries, Brazil, Korea: excludes manufacture of wire products and uranium processing and refining. See technical notes. SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, December 2007 HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS: IN NATIONAL CURRENCY PAGE 48 PRIMARY METAL MANUFACTURING (NAICS 331) (1) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COUNTRY OR AREA 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNITED STATES........... 20.84 21.41 21.75 22.38 22.87 23.07 23.65 23.63 24.64 25.76 26.89 28.00 28.32 29.03 BRAZIL.................. .. .. .. .. 10.13 10.70 10.73 10.22 11.45 12.30 13.61 14.74 18.03 17.85 CANADA.................. 28.92 30.18 30.11 30.63 31.08 31.10 30.97 32.45 32.36 33.54 34.88 36.19 37.39 38.28 MEXICO.................. 9654 #10.47 12.69 14.96 17.27 19.63 22.29 24.84 27.72 30.81 34.03 37.76 40.05 41.99 AUSTRALIA............... .. .. 24.39 25.76 26.12 28.13 30.81 31.35 31.53 33.42 35.50 37.47 38.96 39.78 ISRAEL.................. 16.46 19.09 21.10 25.17 28.24 32.78 36.01 37.29 40.31 44.58 42.92 43.79 45.79 44.96 JAPAN................... 2960 3013 3044 3042 3017 3066 3067 3110 3154 3163 3066 3077 3201 3338 KOREA, REPUBLIC OF...... .. 6632 6984 7627 9033 9531 9612 9534 14887 10101 11787 12578 14421 16937 TAIWAN.................. 182.9 186.5 209.6 207.2 209.5 216.4 226.7 256.5 258.5 279.7 254.9 273.0 289.7 287.8 AUSTRIA................. 264.0 278.8 288.7 302.3 310.0 314.7 322.3 #24.06 24.80 26.07 26.43 27.13 27.70 28.89 BELGIUM................. .. .. .. 970.5 1024 1047 1072 #27.03 28.11 28.28 29.24 29.72 30.37 31.09 DENMARK................. 115.8 121.3 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. FINLAND................. 93.76 102.2 107.5 115.1 118.2 123.4 126.6 #21.78 23.80 24.12 25.26 25.54 26.26 26.71 FRANCE.................. 106.1 108.3 109.4 110.1 111.2 112.8 114.6 #17.71 18.37 19.32 19.94 20.55 21.13 21.77 GERMANY................. .. .. .. .. .. .. 50.02 #25.62 26.87 27.40 28.02 28.53 28.54 28.94 GREECE.................. 2308 2558 2768 3095 3276 3590 3369 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. IRELAND................. 10.51 11.22 10.56 10.21 11.06 11.87 12.49 #16.33 15.80 16.53 17.47 17.35 17.58 18.56 ITALY................... 28226 29868 31072 32804 34134 36082 35626 #18.57 18.81 19.25 19.81 20.27 21.04 21.44 LUXEMBOURG.............. .. .. .. .. 810.6 852.2 885.9 #23.95 25.41 24.62 24.55 24.77 25.34 26.54 NETHERLANDS............. 42.76 44.16 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. NORWAY.................. 154.4 154.1 161.9 166.9 177.7 184.3 200.3 205.3 216.9 234.4 250.8 263.6 282.2 288.0 POLAND.................. .. .. .. .. .. 13.03 14.71 15.80 16.46 17.93 18.17 18.82 19.99 20.74 SPAIN................... 1871 1992 2084 2172 2232 2390 2562 #15.85 16.28 16.36 16.91 18.07 18.74 19.34 SWEDEN.................. 147.4 146.3 152.2 165.9 179.7 190.4 200.7 204.6 214.0 222.7 231.2 238.2 245.6 250.3 UNITED KINGDOM.......... 9.00 9.24 9.48 9.83 10.30 11.09 11.97 12.29 13.11 12.96 13.15 14.09 14.27 15.06 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) For NACE countries, Brazil, Korea: excludes manufacture of wire products and uranium processing and refining. See technical notes. SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, December 2007