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Labour Cost Index (Salary and Wage Rates)


March 2007 quarter

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Highlights


In the year to the March 2007 quarter:

  • Salary and wage rates (including overtime) increased 3.1 percent.
  • Overtime wage rates increased 3.8 percent.
  • Salary and wage rates (including overtime) for the public sector increased 3.8 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
 0.6
 3.2 
 0.6 
 3.1 
Public sector
 0.6
3.7
0.6
3.8
Private sector
 0.7
3.0
0.6
3.0





Dallas Welch
Acting Government Statistician
7 May 2007
Cat 63.903 Set 06/07 – 167

There is a companion Media Release published  – Labour Cost Index and Quarterly Employment Survey: March 2007 quarter.

 



  Labour Cost Index (Salary and Wage Rates): March 2007 quarter (pdf)



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