{"id":777013752,"date":"2024-03-07T08:53:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T11:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777013752"},"modified":"2026-04-22T12:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T15:18:29","slug":"macau-gaming-workers-pay-rises-by-6-8-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-gaming-workers-pay-rises-by-6-8-in-2023","title":{"rendered":"Macau gaming workers pay rises by 6.8% in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Average earnings reached MOP25,290 (US$3,138).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.-\u00a0<strong>The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)<\/strong>\u00a0has reported that the average earnings of full-time employees in the Macau gaming industry in December were MOP25,290 (US$3,138), up 6.8 per cent year-on-year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Employment figures showed a decrease of over 400 compared to the previous year. There were 23,359 dealers with an average wage of MOP20,870, marking a 5.4 per cent increase from the previous year.\u00a0This was attributed to workers having been fired in 2022. The last quarter of 2023 saw 387 new vacancies, a recruitment rate of 2 per cent and a turnover rate of 1.6 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:&nbsp;<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-gdp-up-80-5-in-2023\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Macau GDP up 80.5% in 2023<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Average earnings reached MOP25,290 (US$3,138).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":25151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Macau's gaming industry reported a 6.8% year-on-year increase in average full-time employee earnings to MOP25,290 (US$3,138) in December, despite an overall employment decrease of over 400. Dealer wages rose 5.4% to MOP20,870, with Q4 2023 seeing 387 new vacancies, a 2% recruitment rate, and a 1.6% turnover rate, against a backdrop of 80.5% GDP growth in 2023.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact of Wage Inflation?","query":"What is the projected impact of the 6.8% year-on-year wage increase on Macau's integrated resort operators' GGR margins and overall profitability in the coming fiscal year?"},{"label":"Labor Market Dynamics?","query":"How do the reported employment decrease, recruitment rate, and turnover rate in Macau's gaming sector reflect the post-pandemic labor market recovery and potential challenges for B2C licensing holders?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777013752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casino-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777013752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777013786,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777013752\/revisions\/777013786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777013752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777013752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777013752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}