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S. Korea’s listed companies see operating profit fall, payroll cost rise

Collected: 2016.06.27

Distributed: 2016.06.28

Source: Go Direct

With sales and operating profit per employee of listed companies of South Korea’s 30 largest groups decreasing over the recent five years, their profitability deteriorated but their payroll cost increased 4.2 percent every year, according to the report of payroll cost and profitability of listed companies of 30 large groups between 2011 and 2015 released by the Federation of Korean Industries on Sunday.

The report showed that sales per employee of the listed companies declined 111 million won ($94,629), or 2.7 percent per year, to 969 million won in 2015 from 1.08 billion won in 2011.

Operating profit per worker also fell 18.15 million won, or 7.1 percent a year, to 53.17 million won in 2015 from 71.32 million won in 2011.

Meanwhile, payroll cost per employee rose 13.34 million won, or 4.2 percent per year, to 87.87 million won in 2015 from 74.53 million won in 2011.

Last year, three industries with the highest payroll cost are construction industry with 123 million won, science and technology industry with 117 million won and manufacturing industry with 95.7 million won.

Over the past five years, the total operating profits of the listed companies of the 30 groups dropped 8.36 trillion won, or 4.1 percent a year, to 45.86 trillion won in 2015 from 54.22 billion won in 2011.

The total payroll costs gained 19.13 trillion won, or 7.5 percent per year, to 75.79 trillion won in 2015 from 56.66 trillion won in 2011.

By Chung Wook

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