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Queensland Life Sciences Industry Report 2012 36 5.6 Employment Categories Across all respondents (133), the greatest proportion of employees held roles in R&D (35.1%; R&D professionals and technical staff plus support staff delivering R&D related services) and administration/management (22.7%). Marketing and sales accounted for 12.8% of employees, with manufacturing and bioprocessing accounting for 12.1%. Remaining staff were employed in clinical trials (4.8%), quality assurance (4.1%), regulatory (2.0%) and other categories (6.4%) (Figure 5; Table 26). Figure 5: Distribution of employees across employment categories (133 respondents) Consistent with our previous analyses of the QLS Industry, the majority of staff within research organisations (72.5%) were involved in performing R&D or providing technical support. There was an increase in employment in the R&D related categories of 12.5% in 2011 compared to the 2009 survey. 26.5% of employees in companies were engaged in R&D activities in 2011, compared to 22.4% in 2009. A number of work categories were found almost exclusively in companies, including manufacturing and bioprocessing, quality assurance, regulatory professionals and sales and marketing. This reflects the commercial activity of companies in manufacturing and marketing regulated products. TABLE 26: Breakdown of work categories by organisation classification (131 respondents) All Respondents Company RO R&D professionals and technical staff 26.4% 20.1% 53.8% Marketing and sales 12.8% 15.6% 0.6% Management/Executive 12.7% 14.7% 3.9% Manufacturing and bio processing 12.1% 14.8% 0.2% Administration/Human resources 10.0% 10.6% 7.3% Support staff delivering R&D related services 8.7% 6.4% 18.7% Other 6.4% 5.3% 11.3% Clinical trials 4.8% 5.1% 3.4% Quality assurance 4.1% 5.0% 0.3% Regulatory professionals 2.0% 2.4% 0.4% The breakdown of work categories revealed in the 2007, 2009 and 2011 surveys is provided in Table 27. The greatest change in employee roles in the past two years was a reduction in the proportion of management/administrative roles from 31.7% in 2009 to 22.7% in 2011. This may be a result of organisations rationalising staffing levels in non-research related roles in response to the GFC. TABLE 27: Breakdown of work categories across multiple surveys Work Category Biotechnology Survey 2007 R&D Professionals and Technical Staff Support Staff Delivering R&D Related Services TMD Survey 2007 QLS Survey 2009 QLS Survey 2011 43.3% 17.1% 25.8% 26.4% 3.1% 4.5% 6.2% 8.7% Manufacturing and Bioprocessing 5.3% 14.9% 9.2% 12.1% Quality Assurance and Clinical Trials 6.6% 7.1% 7.2% 8.9% Regulatory Professionals 3.7% ND 2.7% 2.0% Marketing and Sales 7.6% 26.6% 10.6% 12.8% Management/ Executive Administration and Human Resources 19.0% 19.1% 10.7% 16.8% 14.9% 12.7% 10.0% Other 11.4% ND 6.6% 6.4% 5.7 Wage and Salary Expenditure All respondents (85, one outlier removed) reported $563.8 million in expenditure on wages/salaries, an average of $6.6 million per organisation and a median of $800,000. Wage and salary costs averaged 52% of total expenditure per organisation. Research organisations (16) reported an average annual wage and salary expenditure approximately four times that of companies (69). The median value was approximately 25 times that of companies (Table 28). This is a significant change compared to the total and average/median wage and salary expenditure data provided by survey respondents in 2009. In 2011, almost $200 million more in expenditure on wages and salaries was reported by research organisations (for a similar number of organisations) than in 2009. Moreover, in 2009, the average annual wage and salary expenditure of research organisations was only twice that of companies and the median annual wage expenditure was only eight times that of companies.
TABLE 28: Wage and Salary Expenditure of QLS organisations 2011 (85 respondents) Companies RO All Number of organisations 69 16 85 Total Wage and Salary expenditure ($m) $291.6 $272.1 $563.8 Average salary expenditure per organisation ($m) $4.2 $17.0 $6.6 Median salary expenditure per organisation ($m) $0.56 $14.38 $0.80 It was estimated that QLS organisations spent approximately $2.14 billion on wages/salaries in 2011 (Table 29). This amount is 98.6% higher than the combined estimates reported for 2009. The median figures from the survey data suggested an implied average wage of $54,600 for the private sector compared to research organisations, where the implied average wage was $67,600. The reliability of this estimate cannot be assured as university units will typically have to approximate the number of staff deemed to be working in Life Sciences and then estimate salary expenditure, whereas companies will typically have a more defined workforce in that regard and, therefore, more accurate data. 5.8 Comparative Life Sciences Wages According to the ABS, across all industries, the average annual salary for Australian and Queensland employees in 2011 was $71,568 and $69,945, respectively. 25 Employment and expenditure medians from the current survey suggest an average annual salary of $66,965 for QLS employees in 2011. As a cross-check, a measure of the typical Australian Life Sciences wage in 2011 was determined by taking a simple average of three ABS salary data reporting categories (Scientific, Education, Health-related) to arrive at $74,750. 26 TABLE 29: Total Wage and Salary Expenditure by QLS organisations A comparison of the average QLS wage estimated in 2009 and 2011 (Table 30) suggests that the average QLS wage, in both research organisations and the private sector, has fallen over this period. This may reflect the lower proportion of staff employed in executive, management, human resources and administrative roles (see section 5.6) and an increase in the outsourcing of activities requiring highly skilled personnel. TABLE 30: Average Wages of Life Science Industry Employees in Queensland 2009 and 2011 2011 2009 All Respondents $66,965 $77,732 Companies $54,600 $78,107 Research Organisations $67,600 $75,819 A comparison of the average QLS Industry wage to selected countries is presented in Table 31. This simple analysis suggests that the average Queensland Life Sciences salary is comparable to those in several other member countries of the OECD. TABLE 31: Estimated average Life Sciences wages, an international comparison 27 Region Source Year Average Annual Wage (AU$) Queensland Current Survey 2011 $66,965 Australia ABS 2011 $74,750 New Zealand Statistics New Zealand 2011 $46,536 USA United States Dept. of Labor 2010 $69,447 Canada Statistics Canada 2011 $60,638 Sweden Statistics Sweden 2010 $67,114 2007 2009 2011 BIO TMD BIO TMD BIO TMD Total Reported Wage and Salary Expenditure ($m) $104 $63 $104 $146 $308 $256 $167 $250 $564 Average Wage and Salary Expenditure per Organisation ($m) $2.4 $1.4 $2.5 $4.1 $6.9 $7.2 $1.9 $3.2 $7.0 Total QLS Industry Wage and Salary Expenditure ($m) $502 $287 $387 $691 $1085 $1057 Numbers may appear inconsistent due to rounding. $789 $1078 $2141 25 Australian Bureau of Statistics, 6302.0 — Average Weekly Earnings, Australia, Aug 2011, Persons; Full Time; Adult; Total earnings ; Professional, Scientific and Technical Services, Education and Training; and Health Care and Social Assistance. 26 Ibid. 27 Note that the estimated wages presented are based on proxies for the Life Sciences Industry. Detail on the approach used to calculate these estimates is provided in the methodology section in the appendix to this report. 37
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