Macao sees more hotel employees in Q3

The number of full-time hotel employees in China's Macao Special Administrative Region reached 45,584 at the end of the third quarter of 2014, up 2.6 percent year-on-year, official figures showed on Thursday.[Special coverage]

According to the Statistics and Census Service, the average earnings of the hotel employees in September rose by 10.7 percent year-on-year to 15,750 patacas (1,972 US dollars).

Restaurants in the region registered 23,831 full-time employees at the end of September, up 9.3 percent, with their average earnings growing 8.4 percent year-on-year.

The number of employees of the financial sector stood at 6,530 full-time employees at the end of the third quarter, an increase of 2.7 percent.

Experts say the increase of employees in the non-gaming sectors could be seen as an indicator of Macao's efforts to diversify its gambling-dominated economy.0 In the region with a population of around 630,000, the gaming industry accounts for about 80 percent of its revenue.