Posted by meb at March 27th, 2008

Hourly wages in the manufacturing sector increased by 9.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007 over the same quarter of the previous year, according to a report released yesterday by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat).

The same report noted that earnings per worker in the manufacturing sector increased by 8.8 percent. In the manufacturing public sector hourly wages grew by 8 percent and earnings per worker increased by 9 percent, while in the private sector hourly wages increased by 10.2 percent and earnings per worker increased by 9 percent in the final quarter of last year compared to the same period in 2006.

Furthermore, the report showed that earnings per worker in sectors other than manufacturing increased by 9.1 percent in the same period; earnings per worker in the public sector outside of manufacturing grew by 4.8 percent, and earnings per worker in the private sector outside of manufacturing climbed by 9.5 percent.

source: Today’s Zaman

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