Two new hotels posted about one in eight openings
Grand Hyatt Grand Cayman (advertised as PB Employee Co Ltd) and ONE|GT (advertised as ONE GT Services Limited), the George Town hotel that opened this year, listed 418 positions between them. The Grand Hyatt had posted 2 adverts in August and none in September. Its biggest calls in October:
- Cook 56
- Food and beverage server 40
- Bartender 24
- Rooms back of house employee 18
- Chef de partie 14
- Bell attendant 13
Most of the dip in pay came from which jobs were advertised
September’s adverts, re-weighted to October’s mix of occupations, give a median of CI$28,080, exactly October’s own. The mix moved most in craft and trades down 89, professionals down 62 and service and sales up 29 adverts.
| Occupation group | Adverts | Median pay | vs Sep | At minimum wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managers | 115 | CI$68,750 | −20% | 1% |
| Professionals | 174 | CI$65,313 | −4% | 5% |
| Technicians and associate professionals | 141 | CI$50,450 | +13% | 9% |
| Craft and trades | 326 | CI$29,250 | 0% | 21% |
| Clerical support | 66 | CI$24,489 | −12% | 32% |
| Plant and machine operators | 57 | CI$23,693 | +1% | 49% |
| Elementary occupations | 308 | CI$21,938 | 0% | 59% |
| Agriculture and fishery | 25 | CI$21,938 | +6% | 64% |
| Service and sales | 258 | CI$21,655 | 0% | 62% |
- Clerical support: Foster's Food Fair Ltd. holds 45 of the 129 positions, while its adverts count once each in the median.
Building trades pay more than kitchen and cleaning work
Every non-tipped job with at least 10 full-time adverts in October, most-advertised first.
| Job | Adverts | Positions | Median pay | At minimum wage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Janitor | 79 | 180 | CI$20,475 | 86% |
| Carpenter | 77 | 114 | CI$30,420 | 12% |
| Mason | 76 | 101 | CI$29,250 | 9% |
| Gardener | 32 | 47 | CI$20,914 | 69% |
| Kitchen helper | 30 | 49 | CI$20,475 | 83% |
| Handyman | 25 | 35 | CI$21,938 | 56% |
| Nail technician | 14 | 22 | CI$20,475 | 93% |
| Cashier | 14 | 19 | CI$21,207 | 79% |
| Food and beverage server | 13 | 28 | CI$20,768 | 77% |
| Cleaner | 12 | 46 | CI$20,667 | 75% |
| Sales representative | 12 | 15 | CI$22,230 | 42% |
| Tiler | 11 | 16 | CI$31,590 | 0% |
| Steel fixer | 11 | 15 | CI$30,420 | 27% |
| Welder | 10 | 17 | CI$30,795 | 10% |
| Domestic helper* | 10 | 15 | CI$20,475 | 100% |
| Mechanic | 10 | 11 | CI$27,414 | 20% |
- Domestic helper: Gold Heart Caregiver Agency posted 4 of the 10 adverts, which pulls this median toward one employer's pay.
The biggest advertisers
| Employer | Adverts | Positions | Share of positions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand HyattCook, Food and beverage server, Bartender | 55 | 350 | 10.9% |
| Foster's Food Fair Ltd.Bakery associate, Front end associate, Front end supervisor | 18 | 223 | 6.9% |
| ONE|GTRoom attendant, Host hostess, Food and beverage server assistant | 34 | 68 | 2.1% |
| CL Flowers & Sons Ltd.Security officer porter, Airline agent porter, Factory worker porter | 6 | 63 | 2.0% |
| RBC Royal Bank (Cayman) LimitedSenior manager credit structures, Director private banking, Associate portfolio manager | 6 | 42 | 1.3% |
How this report works
- Advertised, not paid. Figures are the salary ranges employers put on their adverts. What a hire is actually paid can differ.
- Scope. Every advert the WORC JobsCayman board posted between 1 and 31 October: 1,731 adverts. A role advertised again counts again (173 re-advertisements).
- One pay sample. Every pay figure uses the same 1,470 full-time adverts with usable pay for jobs not paid gratuities. Left out: 191 tipped adverts (above), 55 part-time or temporary, 14 with no occupation code, 1 with implausible pay.
- Pay. The midpoint of each advert’s range, per year, in CI$. 155 adverts priced in US$ are converted at CI$1 = US$1.20. Medians: half of adverts offer more, half less.
- Minimum wage. An advert counts when the bottom of its range, as an hourly rate at the advert’s stated hours (45 a week if none), is no more than CI$8.75.
- Jobs and groups. Occupation groups are the ISCO-08 major groups behind WORC’s occupation codes. Job titles are grouped by spelling and by the role named first (“Janitor/Cleaner” counts as Janitor); a job needs 10 or more adverts for its own median.
- One-employer flags. A job is marked when one employer posted 25% or more of its adverts, or holds 30% or more of its positions.
- Positions are the openings each advert lists; one September advert listing 9,129 openings counts as one.
- September. Our daily pull of the board began on 7 September. Every advert stays up for at least 16 days (almost all for 21), so September adverts posted before then were still live and counted. A few withdrawn within days may be missing: 8 of October’s 1,731 closed within a week.
- Source: WORC JobsCayman job board, collected daily for the Cayman Salary Index.
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