HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS IN MANUFACTURING 33 COUNTRIES OR AREAS 22 MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES, 1992-2005 FURNITURE AND RELATED PRODUCT MANUFACTURING (NAICS 337) 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 73 FURNITURE AND RELATED PRODUCT MANUFACTURING (NAICS 337) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.................. .. .. .. .. 23 22 19 12 13 10 8 9 10 13 CANADA.................. 100 95 88 87 90 86 81 82 82 78 82 90 103 114 MEXICO.................. 12 14 16 9 9 9 8 8 9 10 10 10 10 11 AUSTRALIA............... .. .. 93 95 102 94 81 85 72 64 73 94 111 109 ISRAEL.................. .. .. .. 56 58 59 56 52 55 54 46 47 50 50 JAPAN................... 110 127 134 147 121 110 98 110 108 88 85 87 92 89 TAIWAN.................. 35 35 36 36 35 33 28 28 29 29 26 24 25 26 BELGIUM................. .. .. .. 183 174 150 146 138 119 114 124 145 162 163 FINLAND................. 127 102 111 135 131 111 99 103 88 85 91 110 119 126 GERMANY................. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 122 116 123 144 154 152 GREECE.................. 55 52 56 63 66 62 57 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. SPAIN................... 94 78 73 79 73 64 61 58 50 48 52 63 71 74 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, December 2007 HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS: IN U.S. DOLLARS PAGE 74 FURNITURE AND RELATED PRODUCT MANUFACTURING (NAICS 337) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COUNTRY OR AREA 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNITED STATES........... 12.20 12.47 12.73 13.20 13.63 14.10 14.61 15.01 15.78 16.50 16.77 17.43 17.68 18.14 BRAZIL.................. .. .. .. .. 3.13 3.04 2.85 1.81 1.97 1.68 1.42 1.53 1.76 2.33 CANADA.................. 12.14 11.87 11.21 11.50 12.25 12.15 11.77 12.27 12.93 12.93 13.71 15.65 18.13 20.68 MEXICO.................. 1.44 1.70 1.98 1.22 1.17 1.23 1.16 1.26 1.44 1.63 1.75 1.74 1.80 1.95 AUSTRALIA............... .. .. 11.84 12.60 13.89 13.32 11.91 12.77 11.34 10.52 12.29 16.42 19.55 19.71 ISRAEL.................. .. .. .. 7.37 7.89 8.30 8.19 7.83 8.61 8.94 7.73 8.21 8.81 9.08 JAPAN................... 13.45 15.83 17.07 19.35 16.50 15.51 14.31 16.48 17.10 14.50 14.26 15.23 16.31 16.17 TAIWAN.................. 4.32 4.39 4.54 4.78 4.71 4.61 4.04 4.26 4.63 4.78 4.28 4.11 4.46 4.66 BELGIUM................. .. .. .. 24.17 23.74 21.13 21.38 20.76 18.82 18.80 20.75 25.34 28.61 29.51 FINLAND................. 15.45 12.75 14.12 17.78 17.84 15.68 14.51 15.39 13.95 14.08 15.25 19.11 21.07 22.95 GERMANY................. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 19.22 19.12 20.64 25.07 27.23 27.54 GREECE.................. 6.77 6.50 7.11 8.36 9.04 8.68 8.27 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. SPAIN................... 11.49 9.78 9.27 10.38 10.00 9.06 8.92 8.71 7.82 7.94 8.71 11.02 12.62 13.36 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, December 2007 HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS: IN NATIONAL CURRENCY PAGE 75 FURNITURE AND RELATED PRODUCT MANUFACTURING (NAICS 337) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COUNTRY OR AREA 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNITED STATES........... 12.20 12.47 12.73 13.20 13.63 14.10 14.61 15.01 15.78 16.50 16.77 17.43 17.68 18.14 BRAZIL.................. .. .. .. .. 3.14 3.28 3.30 3.30 3.61 3.95 4.14 4.70 5.15 5.66 CANADA.................. 14.68 15.31 15.31 15.79 16.71 16.83 17.47 18.23 19.21 20.03 21.52 21.93 23.60 25.06 MEXICO.................. 4449 #5.30 6.67 7.84 8.86 9.75 10.60 12.06 13.60 15.24 16.94 18.77 20.29 21.20 AUSTRALIA............... .. .. 16.19 17.01 17.74 17.91 18.93 19.78 19.51 20.35 22.60 25.17 26.55 25.84 ISRAEL.................. .. .. .. 22.18 25.19 28.62 31.12 32.43 35.10 37.62 36.64 37.38 39.49 40.76 JAPAN................... 1706 1759 1745 1818 1795 1878 1875 1874 1844 1763 1786 1765 1765 1780 TAIWAN.................. 108.6 116.0 120.2 126.7 129.4 132.6 135.6 137.7 144.8 161.5 147.8 141.4 148.7 149.7 BELGIUM................. .. .. .. 712.3 735.2 756.6 776.4 #19.48 20.39 21.00 21.95 22.38 23.00 23.71 FINLAND................. 69.34 73.00 73.88 77.80 81.97 81.47 77.61 #14.44 15.11 15.73 16.14 16.88 16.94 18.44 GERMANY................. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 20.82 21.36 21.83 22.15 21.89 22.12 GREECE.................. 1291 1490 1726 1937 2176 2372 2445 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. SPAIN................... 1176 1246 1242 1293 1267 1327 1332 #8.18 8.47 8.87 9.21 9.73 10.15 10.73 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, December 2007