Chart of the Day: Clerical, sales & service workers up 7%

This outweighed the decrease in production & related workers.

The Manpower Research and Statistics Department of the Ministry of Manpower reported:

Both professionals, managers, executives & technicians (PMETs) and non-PMETs experienced employment gains over the year.

Driven by the strong increase in clerical, sales & service workers (7.0%) which outweighed the decrease in production & related workers (-1.8%), resident non-PMET employment increased by 2.7% in 2012, faster than the growth of 1.5% for PMETs.

Consequently, the PMET share of resident employment dipped from 52.2% in 2011 to 51.9% in 2012. This was still higher than the 44.6% in 2002 as PMETs experienced faster employment growth (4.5% p.a.) than non-PMETs (1.4% p.a.) over the decade.

Similar trends were observed for professionals, managers & executives (PMEs), whose share of resident employment rose from 26.6% in 2002 to 31.5% in 2011 before dipping to 31.2% in 2012.