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Labour Cost Index (Salary and Wage Rates)


December 2006 quarter

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Highlights


In the year to the December 2006 quarter:

  • Salary and wage rates (including overtime) increased 3.2 percent.
  • Overtime wage rates increased 3.7 percent.
  • The mean increase was 5.5 percent for all surveyed salary and ordinary time wage rates that rose.

 

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
  0.9 
 3.2
 0.9
 3.2
Public sector
  0.8 
 3.5
 0.9
 3.6
Private sector
1.0
 3.2
 0.9
 3.1





Brian Pink
Government Statistician
5 February 2007
Cat 63.903 Set 06/07 – 111

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

 



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



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