Labour Cost Index: (All Labour Costs): June 2006 quarter (provisional)

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Annual Leave and Statutory Holidays Drive Increase in Non-Wage Labour Costs

Highlights

From the June 2005 to the June 2006 quarter:

  • Surveyed labour costs rose 3.7 percent.

 

  • Non-wage labour costs rose 6.2 percent.

 

  • Annual leave and statutory holiday costs rose 7.1 percent.

 

  • Superannuation costs rose 6.6 percent.

 

  • Workplace accident insurance costs rose 4.8 percent.

 

  • Other non-wage labour costs (vehicles, medical insurance and low interest loans) rose 0.7 percent.

 

  

Graph, All Labour Costs.

Graph, All Non-wage Labour Costs.

 Brian Pink  3 October 2006
 Government Statistician Cat 63.904 Set 06/07 – 050 

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