Table 1343. Indexes of Hourly Compensation Costs for Production Workers in Manufacturing by Country: 1980 to 2006
[United States = 100. Compensation costs include pay for time worked, other direct pay (including holiday and vacation pay, bonuses, other direct payments, and the cost of pay in kind), employer expenditures for legally required insurance programs and contractual and private benefit plans, and for some countries, other labor taxes. Data adjusted for exchange rates. Area averages are tradeweighted to account for difference in countries’ relative importance to U.S. trade in manufactured goods. The trade weights used to compute the average compensation cost measures for selected economic groups are based on the relative dollar value of U.S. trade in manufactured commodities (exports plus imports) with each country or area in 2004; see source for detail] Area or country United States . . . . . . Total 1 . . . . . . . . OECD 2, 3 . . . . . . . . . Europe 3 . . . . . . . . . . Euro Area 4 . . . . . . . . Asian newly industrializing economies 5 . . . Brazil . . . . . . Canada . . . . Mexico . . . . . Australia . . . . Hong Kong 6 . Israel . . . . . . Japan . . . . . Korea, South . New Zealand . Philippines . . Singapore . . . Sri Lanka . . . Taiwan 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1980 1985 1990 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 100 68 73 99 101 12 100 52 56 61 62 13 100 80 85 114 117 25 100 87 92 124 132 39 100 82 88 120 127 40 32 96 9 96 29 57 115 46 64 6 46 3 34 100 76 82 107 111 39 32 93 10 92 30 59 104 43 62 5 45 3 33 120 122 15 127 110 94 143 50 15 78 93 108 114 133 15 28 66 123 131 86 100 72 77 106 108 32 30 86 9 82 29 59 95 31 51 4 40 3 29 119 122 16 128 105 93 136 48 15 77 90 106 115 132 16 28 65 121 130 92 100 72 78 103 105 35 18 85 10 84 28 56 108 39 50 4 37 2 31 114 117 16 127 104 90 130 45 15 76 86 103 113 131 15 27 63 117 123 92 100 69 74 91 92 36 18 84 11 73 28 58 112 42 43 4 37 2 32 97 102 15 109 91 79 115 39 14 68 74 89 98 115 14 23 54 105 107 86 100 65 69 87 88 33 14 79 11 65 28 59 94 38 39 4 34 2 30 93 97 15 106 88 76 110 39 15 69 71 83 97 115 16 22 53 93 105 82 100 64 69 91 92 33 12 78 12 71 26 51 86 41 42 4 31 2 26 96 101 18 111 91 78 113 30 18 73 75 86 103 129 15 23 56 98 110 85 100 72 78 107 109 33 12 87 11 88 25 52 90 43 52 4 32 2 25 113 118 21 132 108 92 133 53 21 88 90 102 122 146 16 28 67 118 124 95 100 78 85 117 119 35 14 94 11 101 24 52 95 47 59 4 32 2 26 123 130 24 146 120 101 143 63 25 98 102 113 133 157 17 30 75 130 131 107 100 79 86 117 119 37 100 82 90 121 123 42
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. (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA) . 92 88 110 96 . 23 12 11 10 . 88 64 88 89 . 16 14 22 28 . 35 29 52 55 . 57 49 85 137 . 10 10 25 42 . 56 36 57 60 . (NA) (NA) (NA) 5 . 16 20 26 45 . 2 2 2 3 . 11 12 26 35
17 21 101 108 11 12 105 110 24 24 52 54 90 85 54 62 63 61 4 4 31 36 2 (NA) 27 27 123 129 25 145 119 101 140 64 26 101 102 115 134 165 19 31 75 128 128 108 128 134 28 149 126 105 144 68 26 109 105 116 136 172 21 32 79 133 129 114
Austria . . . . . . . Belgium . . . . . . Czech Republic . Denmark. . . . . . Finland . . . . . . . France . . . . . . . Germany . . . . . Greece . . . . . . . Hungary . . . . . . Ireland . . . . . . . Italy . . . . . . . . . Luxembourg . . . Netherlands . . . Norway. . . . . . . Poland . . . . . . . Portugal . . . . . . Spain . . . . . . . . Sweden . . . . . . Switzerland . . . . United Kingdom .
. 92 60 120 147 139 . 122 65 120 150 142 . (X) (X) (X) 15 17 . 112 63 123 146 142 . 89 65 141 132 125 . 92 59 104 112 107 . (X) (X) (X) 175 167 . 39 29 45 53 54 . (NA) (NA) (NA) 16 15 . 67 49 82 82 82 . 84 60 119 96 102 . 119 58 107 137 127 . 125 69 121 140 130 . 123 82 147 145 143 . (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA) (NA) . 21 12 24 30 30 . 61 36 76 74 75 . 129 75 140 126 137 . 114 75 139 168 157 . 78 49 84 80 80
1 For 1980−1990, the trade-weighted measure includes all 33 foreign economies NA Not available. X Not applicable. except for Brazil, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and the Philippines. For 1995, it includes all but Brazil and Poland. For 1996, it includes all but Poland. For 1997 onward, the measure includes all 33 economies. 2 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; see text of this section. 3 Data for Czech Republic and Hungary 1980−1990; and Poland 1980−1996 not included. 4 Euro area refers to European Union member countries that have adopted the Euro as the common currency as of January 1, 2001, (Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain). 5 Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. 6 Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China. Index based on the average of selected manufacturing industries. 7 See footnote 2, Table 1288.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, International Comparisons of Hourly Compensation Costs in Manufacturing, 2006, 25 January 2008. See also .