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The average monthly salaries for middle-level managerial and professional employees in all major sectors surveyed taken together rose 2.4% in June over a year earlier, the Census & Statistics Department says.
After discounting the increase in consumer prices, the real salary index fell 0.1%.
Analysed by economic sector and on a year-on-year comparison in nominal terms, the average monthly salaries for middle-level managerial and professional employees increased in all major sectors, ranging from 0.1% to 5.8%.
After netting out the increase in consumer prices, in June, the real indices increased 1.2% in the manufacturing, electricity and gas sector, and 3.2% the financial institutions and insurance sector.
As for the building and construction and related trades sector, the wholesale, retail and import/export trades sector, and the transport, storage and communications sector, decreases ranging from 0.1% to 2.4% were registered.
In June, 57% of the middle-level managerial and professional employees covered in the survey were entitled to guaranteed year-end extra pay, 65% to profit-sharing bonuses, and 18% to housing benefits of some kind, compared with 59%, 69% and 22% in June last year.
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