Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the 28 banks in Macao had a total of 5,363 full-time employees at the end of the first quarter of 2013, an increase of 187 year-on-year. Analysed by occupation, directors and managers totalled 1,262 and 2,161 were clerks, including 848 bank tellers. For the full-time employees, average earnings (excluding bonuses and allowances) for March 2013 amounted to MOP21,330, up by 2.5% year-on-year; average earnings of bank tellers was MOP12,380, up by 2.7% year-on-year. At the end of the first quarter of 2013, the Banking Sector had 170 job vacancies, down by 53 year-on-year, of which the majority (123) were vacancies for clerk, including 62 for bank tellers. In terms of recruitment prerequisites, 37.6% of the vacancies required working experience, 72.4% required tertiary education, and requirement for knowledge of Mandarin and English at 96.5% each. In the first quarter of 2013, the Banking Sector hired 254 new employees and the employee recruitment rate was 4.8%, up by 0.8 percentage points year-on-year. The job vacancy rate (3.1%) fell by 1.0 percentage point, indicating that some of the vacancies were already filled.
