HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS IN MANUFACTURING 30 COUNTRIES OR AREAS 40 MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES, SELECTED YEARS, 1975-2002 NONFERROUS METALS INCLUDING FOUNDRIES (US SIC 333-6) IMPORTANT NOTE: DATA IN THE FOLLOWING TABLES ARE SUBJECT TO LIMITATIONS THAT ARE DESCRIBED IN THE INTRODUCTION AND IN THE COUNTRY NOTES. THE INTRODUCTION AND COUNTRY NOTES CAN BE ACCESSED AT: ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ForeignLabor/indnotes.txt. General Notes: The measures for total manufacturing were published in news release USDL 03-507, "International Comparisons of Hourly Compensation Costs for Production Workers in Manufacturing, 2002," September 26, 2003. The measures for individual manufacturing industries are less reliable than the total manufacturing data because there are more technical limitations associated with them. For more information about limitations, see the Technical Notes and Country Notes. The measures in these tables are shown according to the U.S. 1987 Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) for every U.S. two-digit level industry and selected three-digit industries. Data are also shown for two-digit level International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC) Rev. 2 industry groups. Currently, data are unavailable for the latest years for several countries in which there have been recent changes in wage surveys or in industrial classification. Additional revisions to this database will be made on an SIC basis. In the future, this database will be converted to a NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) basis. Note: Hourly compensation costs in national currency for countries that are members of the European Monetary Union (Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain) are expressed in the national currency used in each country prior to the implementation of the euro for 1975-1998, and in euros for 1999-2002. More information about national currency units and exchange rates used in these tables is on page 136. .. Data not available. # Break in series. Data are not comparable with data from the previous year. Prepared By: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Office of Productivity And Technology, May 18, 2004. HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS: INDEX U.S. = 100 PAGE 89 NONFERROUS METALS INCLUDING FOUNDRIES (US SIC 333-6) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COUNTRY OR AREA 1975 1980 1985 1990 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNITED STATES (1)....... 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 CANADA.................. .. .. 91 126 122 112 116 117 111 102 105 101 98 95 MEXICO.................. .. .. 11 10 15 15 10 10 12 12 13 15 17 16 JAPAN................... 52 56 52 97 126 138 153 131 119 108 128 133 114 98 KOREA................... 7 10 10 28 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. TAIWAN.................. 8 12 13 27 30 33 35 33 31 28 31 31 29 24 SWEDEN.................. 105 104 66 128 95 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Excluding secondary melting & refining (US SIC 334). SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, May 2004 HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS: IN U.S. DOLLARS PAGE 90 NONFERROUS METALS INCLUDING FOUNDRIES (US SIC 333-6) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COUNTRY OR AREA 1975 1980 1985 1990 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNITED STATES (1)....... 7.44 12.55 15.60 17.17 18.82 18.96 19.05 19.62 20.22 20.59 20.66 21.14 21.76 22.56 CANADA.................. .. .. 14.13 21.63 22.97 21.23 22.07 22.88 22.51 21.01 21.63 21.40 21.24 21.49 MEXICO.................. .. .. 1.67 1.76 2.78 2.90 1.88 2.02 2.36 2.51 2.72 3.20 3.64 3.59 JAPAN................... 3.87 7.09 8.05 16.62 23.76 26.19 29.10 25.76 24.05 22.27 26.35 28.06 24.72 22.01 KOREA................... 0.51 1.21 1.62 4.83 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. TAIWAN.................. 0.59 1.45 2.04 4.71 5.68 6.21 6.59 6.54 6.21 5.67 6.33 6.50 6.42 5.49 SWEDEN.................. 7.82 13.11 10.23 21.92 17.92 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Excluding secondary melting & refining (US SIC 334). SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, May 2004 HOURLY COMPENSATION COSTS FOR PRODUCTION WORKERS: IN NATIONAL CURRENCY PAGE 91 NONFERROUS METALS INCLUDING FOUNDRIES (US SIC 333-6) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COUNTRY OR AREA 1975 1980 1985 1990 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UNITED STATES (1)....... 7.44 12.55 15.60 17.17 18.82 18.96 19.05 19.62 20.22 20.59 20.66 21.14 21.76 22.56 CANADA.................. .. .. 19.30 25.24 29.63 29.00 30.30 31.21 31.18 31.18 32.14 31.80 32.90 33.74 MEXICO.................. .. .. 429.2 4956 #8.67 9.79 12.04 15.32 18.71 22.93 26.01 30.30 33.95 34.74 JAPAN................... 1147 1599 1920 2410 2639 2677 2734 2803 2912 2917 2996 3025 3005 2756 KOREA................... 247.6 736.4 1411 3418 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. TAIWAN.................. 22.44 52.31 81.34 126.7 150.1 164.4 174.5 179.7 178.8 190.4 204.5 203.2 217.1 189.7 SWEDEN.................. 32.39 55.44 88.03 129.9 139.7 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Excluding secondary melting & refining (US SIC 334). SOURCE: U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, May 2004