Labour Cost Index (Salary and Wage Rates): September 2011 quarter

Embargoed until 10:45am  –  01 November 2011
Media release  – 
Wage rates grow 2.0 percent

Key facts

In the September 2011 quarter, salary and wage rates (including overtime) rose 0.6 percent.

In the year to the September 2011 quarter:

  • Salary and wage rates (including overtime) increased 2.0 percent.
  • Overtime wage rates increased 2.2 percent.
  • Private sector salary and ordinary time wage rates increased 2.0 percent.
Sector Salary and ordinary time
wage rates
Percentage change
All salary and wage rates
(including overtime)
Percentage change
From previous
quarter
From previous
year
From previous
quarter
From previous
year
All sectors 0.6 2.0 0.6 2.0
Public sector 0.6 1.8 0.6 1.8
Private sector         0.5 2.0 0.5 2.0


graph, all salary and wage rates, percentage change from same quarter of previous year

Cathryn Ashley-Jones
Acting Government Statistician

1 November 2011
ISSN 1178-0525