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November 2006, Vol. 129, No. 11
Labor costs of manufacturing employees in China: an update to 2003�
Erin Lett
Economist,
Division of Foreign Labor Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
E-mail: Lett.Erin@bls.gov
JudithBanister
Director of Global Demographics, The Conference Board, New York,
Beijing, Hong Kong, and Brussels. She is the former head of the International
Programs Center at the U.S. Census Bureau.
E-mail: Judith.Banister@conference-board.org
With the emergence of Chinese products on the international market, there has been increasing interest in the statistics of China抯 manufacturing industry, particularly for hourly compensation costs (total labor costs to employers). This article updates the 2002 compensation estimates for total Chinese manufacturing, first published in an August 2005 article in the Monthly Labor Review, with data for 2003 and 2004. While total hourly compensation costs for manufacturing workers increased more rapidly in China than in the United States between 2002 and 2004, hourly compensation per employee in China continued to be 3 percent of the level in the United States.
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