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Q: Out of your total number of employees, how many are expatriates and/or foreign pass-
port holders?
60% Greater than 50 As in prior years, approximately half of
50% participants report employing fewer than
Between 20 and 50 5 foreign passport holders and around 33
40% percent this year reported either 5 to 10
Between 11 and 20 or more than 50 expatriates. Slightly fewer
employing between 11 and 20 expatriates,
30% Between 5 and 10 while the percentage of participants this
year reported employing between 21 and
20% Less than 5 50 expatriates dropped back to around 5
percent from more than 10 percent last year.
10%
0% 2015 2014
2016
Q: Has your company taken advantage of the current labor market by hiring new employees?
No No No
(18%) (16%) (19%)
Yes Yes Yes
(82%) (84%) (81%)
2016 2015 2014
60% More than 5,000
Between 1,000 and 5,000
Continuing a gradual rise from a historic 50% Between 500 and 1,000
low of 69.5 percent in 2012, the number of Between 250 and 500
Between 50 and 250
participants this year who reported hav- 40% Less than 50
ing “taken advantage of the current labor
market by hiring new employees” was 81.6
percent, just a slight decline compared with 30%
last year.
Out of companies which reported hir- 20%
ing new employees over the course of 2015,
we find a somewhat similar distribution 10%
to prior years’ in terms of the number of
new hires, with the exception of a notable 0%
increase in the proportion of participants 2016 2015 2014
reporting hiring more than 5,000 new em-
ployees, which almost tripled that of last year’s. over the course of 2015 AmCham South China companies hired
993,506 new employees in China.
Based on this year’s distribution of numbers hired and the
chamber’s current size of 2,300 members, we can estimate that
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Q: Out of your total number of employees, how many are expatriates and/or foreign pass-
port holders?
60% Greater than 50 As in prior years, approximately half of
50% participants report employing fewer than
Between 20 and 50 5 foreign passport holders and around 33
40% percent this year reported either 5 to 10
Between 11 and 20 or more than 50 expatriates. Slightly fewer
employing between 11 and 20 expatriates,
30% Between 5 and 10 while the percentage of participants this
year reported employing between 21 and
20% Less than 5 50 expatriates dropped back to around 5
percent from more than 10 percent last year.
10%
0% 2015 2014
2016
Q: Has your company taken advantage of the current labor market by hiring new employees?
No No No
(18%) (16%) (19%)
Yes Yes Yes
(82%) (84%) (81%)
2016 2015 2014
60% More than 5,000
Between 1,000 and 5,000
Continuing a gradual rise from a historic 50% Between 500 and 1,000
low of 69.5 percent in 2012, the number of Between 250 and 500
Between 50 and 250
participants this year who reported hav- 40% Less than 50
ing “taken advantage of the current labor
market by hiring new employees” was 81.6
percent, just a slight decline compared with 30%
last year.
Out of companies which reported hir- 20%
ing new employees over the course of 2015,
we find a somewhat similar distribution 10%
to prior years’ in terms of the number of
new hires, with the exception of a notable 0%
increase in the proportion of participants 2016 2015 2014
reporting hiring more than 5,000 new em-
ployees, which almost tripled that of last year’s. over the course of 2015 AmCham South China companies hired
993,506 new employees in China.
Based on this year’s distribution of numbers hired and the
chamber’s current size of 2,300 members, we can estimate that
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