Labour Cost Index: (All Labour Costs): June 2007 quarter

  From the June 2006 to the June 2007 quarter:

• All labour costs rose 3.9 percent.
• Salary and wage rates rose 3.2 percent.
• Non-wage labour costs rose 8.1 percent.
• Annual leave and statutory holiday costs rose 9.3 percent as a result of an increase in minimum annual leave entitlement.
• Workplace accident insurance costs rose 9.3 percent.
• Superannuation costs rose 4.2 percent.
• Other non-wage labour costs (vehicles, medical insurance and low interest loans) rose 1.8 percent.