The number of employees engaged in Macau's gaming industry has grown nearly 30 per cent over the past year, according to the results of a survey released by the region's official statistics bureau.
The report, commissioned by the Direccao de Servicos de Estatistica e Censos, indicated that at the end of last year there were 44,743 paid employees engaged in Macau’s gaming industry, an increase of 22.9 per cent year-on-year.
Among the employees, 30,486 were engaged in positions that are directly related to betting services, such as hard and soft count clerks, casino floor persons and dealers, while 5,341 were working as casino and slot machine attendants, hosts, security and surveillance workers and other non-gaming related positions.
The survey also showed that in December 2007, average monthly earnings for full-time employees in Macau’s gaming industry rose 6.6 per cent year-on-year to US$1,862.
