According to data published by the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC), the number is still about double of the 25 job vacancies available by the end of the second quarter of 2020, but pales in comparison with the 904 job vacancies available in the second quarter of 2019, mostly clerk and dealer positions, in pre-pandemic times.

Of the 56 job vacancies available, 30 were for clerk positions, with only seven involving director or management positions, and with no dealer openings.
The DSEC underlined that the level of manpower demand in the gaming sector by the end of June, 2021 remained ‘relatively low,’ with a job vacancy rate of only 0.1 per cent, while the employee recruitment rate stood at 0.8 per cent and the employee turnover rate at 1.8 per cent.

In the second quarter, the number of new recruits and employees leaving employment totalled 466 and 1,016 respectively.

After the recent Covid-19 cases reported in Macau this month, all six local gaming operators also again requested employees to take unpaid leave in a bid to cut manpower costs, with official data not including employees under non-paid leave schemes.

Average earnings excluding bonuses of gaming sector full-time employees – excluding junket operators – increased by 2.1 per cent year-on-year to MOP23,690 (US$2,952) as of the end of June, with dealers seeing their average earnings rise by 3.5 per cent to MOP19,950.

The number of dealers totalled 24,643, down by 701 year-on-year; with their average earnings rising by 3.5 per cent to MOP19,950.

Directors and managers saw the highest decrease in earnings, a 10 per cent year-on-year fall as of June to an average of MOP52,130. However, while resident directors and managers saw their earnings decrease by 11 per cent to MOP50,120, non-resident management saw a 7 per cent rise in average earnings to MOP85,420.