Labour Cost Index (Salary and Wage Rates): March 2008 quarter

Highlights

In the year to the March 2008 quarter:

Salary and wage rates (including overtime) increased 3.4 percent.
Overtime wage rates increased 3.5 percent.
The mean increase for all surveyed salary and ordinary time wage rates that rose was 5.6 percent.

Sector	Salary and ordinary time wage rates		All salary and wage rates (including overtime)
Sector	Percentage change from previous quarter	Percentage change from previous year	Percentage change from previous quarter	Percentage change from previous year
All sectors	0.8	3.4	0.7	3.4
Public sector	0.9	3.4	0.8	3.3
Private sector	0.7	3.5	0.7	3.5

Geoff Bascand
Government Statistician 5 May 2008
ISSN 1178-0525
There is a companion Media Release published – Labour Cost Index and Quarterly Employment Survey: March 2008 quarter.

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