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Labour Cost Index (Salary and Wage Rates)


September 2006 quarter

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Highlights


In the year to the September 2006 quarter:

  • Salary and wage rates (including overtime) for health and community services increased 5.1 percent.
  • Overtime wage rates increased 3.2 percent. 
  • The mean increase recorded for all surveyed salary and ordinary time wage rates was 5.5 percent.

 

Sector

Salary and ordinary time wage rates

 All salary and wage rates (including overtime)
Percentage change from previous quarter Percentage change from previous year Percentage change from previous quarter

Percentage change from previous year

All groups
1.0
3.2
1.0
3.2
Public sector
1.3
3.9
1.3
3.9
Private sector
0.8
2.9
0.9
3.0




Geoff Bascand
Acting Government Statistician
6 November 2006
Cat 63.903 Set 06/07 – 067

There is a companion Media Release published  – Labour Cost Index and Quarterly Employment Survey: September 2006 quarter.

 



  Labour Cost Index (Salary and Wage Rates): September 2006 quarter (pdf)



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