The transport equipment sub-sector contributes the most of the sector’s operating receipts and highest "valued added per worker".

Type Of Retail Trade
Sub-Sector Highlights
Sub-Sector Snapshot
Business Costs
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Type Of Retail Trade

• Retailers in this sub-sector deal in transport equipment which comprises:
  
  
  • motor vehicles (including parts and accessories) and petrol service stations
  • other transport equipment such as bicycles, boats and baby carriages

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Sub-Sector Highlights

• The transport equipment sub-sector, compared to other sub-sectors:
  
  
• contributes the most to the sector’s operating receipts
• has the highest “retail sales per square metre of floor area”
• has the highest “average annual remuneration per employee”
• has the highest “value added per worker”

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Sub-Sector Snapshot

Facts & Figures (2006)
Number of Establishments	1,466
Number of Workers	12,840
Operating Receipts	S$15.1 billion
Operating Expenditure	S$14.5 billion
Operating Surplus	S$724 million
Value Added	S$1.2 billion
Average Annual Remuneration per Employee	S$39,300
Retail Sales per Square Metre of Floor Area	S$24,900

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Business Costs

Type Of Cost	% Of Cost (2006)
Goods Purchases	67.6%
Government Taxes & Fees	24.7%
Remuneration of Employees	3.2%
Rental of Premises	0.8%
Advertising	0.7%

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For More Information

Economic Survey Series 2006: Retail Trade
Department of Statistics

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