Out of all respondents, 123 companies have provided pay adjustment statistics. Among these companies, most of them will increase the average salary of staff from 4.6% to 5.0% in 2008. 13.0% will even increase over 7%. Yet, 8.9% of companies are expected to freeze the salary.

Pay Adjustment – by Business Sectors

In terms of business sectors, Information Technology (IT) reports to have the highest average increase of monthly salary in 2008 (8.8%), followed by Human Resources Management / Consultancy (6.5%).

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Pay Adjustment – by Job Functions

In terms of job functions, Marketing and Design are expected to have the highest pay increase, both with 4.7%, followed by Sales (4.4%) and Human Resources & Administration (4.2%). The overall average across all job functions is 4.1%.

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Pay Adjustment – by Job Positions

In terms of job positions, the highest average increase is observed in Senior Sales Manager, with 5.9% recorded. This is followed by Marketing Director (5.5%), Office Administrator (5.4%) and Systems Support / Network Manager, Technical Support, Marketing Assistant and Senior Marketing Officer (5.3%). The lowest average increase is recorded for Assistant Operations Manager, Operations Officer, and Assistant Administration Manager (2.8%).

Accounting

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Clerical / Secretarial / Operation

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Design

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Engineering

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Human Resources & Administration

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Information Technology

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Logistics

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Marketing

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Merchandising

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Retail & Chain Stores

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Sales

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