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


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Highlights


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.







 
 
 
Geoff Bascand 
Government Statistician
19 October 2007
ISSN 1178-0517

There is a companion Media Release published – Labour Cost Index (All Labour Costs): June 2007 quarter.

 



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



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