NOTE
The data contained in these tables are average of the number of cases reported by the Survey of Employment, Earnings and Hours of Work, and may therefore depend on the extent to which the earnings and wages of the employees within the respective occupations (titles) vary. In industry or occupation classes where the cases reported are not as diverse as or characteristic of the population, average earnings may differ considerably from the true population estimates of average earnings for that particular class. A more accurate estimate of earnings and hours of work is obtained where the number of cases reported are representative of what exist in the population.
Wage earners - Comprise agricultural workers, production or factory workers, construction and maintenance workers, transport workers, retail sales clerk, hotel and restaurant workers. In general, wage earners are non-supervisory staff up to the level of working-foremen who are engaged in the production process, in construction, installation and maintenance operations; warehouse and delivery staff, security staff and official maids. Hourly rated employees are wage earners whose pay is expressed in a set number of hours, (i.e. hourly, daily, and weekly). "Employees paid on other basis" include persons paid on task or piece rates.
Salaried Employees - Comprise all other employees, i.e. administrative, managing directors, working directors of incorporated business, executives, commission agents and traveling salesmen directly responsible to management, professional and technical staff, supervisory workers above the level of working-foremen, clerical workers and similar office staff.
N.B. The various theories of wages do not agree on a unique concept of wages applicable in all circumstances. Some economic theories consider wages as the price of the labour or the labour services utilized in the production of goods and services. The task of defining the concept of wages gives rise to many difficulties because of the fact that differing views are held concerning the appropriateness of including in employee remuneration such items as fringe benefits or social charges and the various supplementary payments made by employers.
ISIC - International Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities (United Nations).
ISCO - International Standard Classification of Occupation (ILO ).