Labour Cost Index (All Labour Costs): June 2008 quarter

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Annual growth in labour costs at 3.7 percent

Highlights

  From the June 2007 quarter to the June 2008 quarter:
  • All labour costs rose 3.7 percent.
  • Salary and wage rates rose 3.5 percent.
  • Non-wage labour costs rose 4.1 percent.
  • Annual leave and statutory holiday costs rose 4.7 percent.
  • Workplace accident insurance costs rose 4.7 percent.
  • Superannuation costs rose 2.7 percent.
  • Other non-wage labour costs (vehicles, medical insurance and low interest loans) rose 0.3 percent.

 

 

 Graph, All Labour Costs.  

Graph, All-Non Labour Cost

 Geoff Bascand   5 November 2008 
 Government Statistician  ISSN 1178-0517

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