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Labour Cost Index (Salary and Wage Rates)


June 2007 quarter

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Highlights


In the year to the June 2007 quarter:

  • Salary and wage rates (including overtime) increased 3.2 percent.
  • Overtime wage rates increased 3.9 percent.
  • Salary and wage rates (including overtime) for the private sector increased 3.2 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 sectors
 0.6
3.1 
0.7 
3.2 
Public sector
 0.3
2.9 
0.3 
3.0 
Private sector
 0.7
3.1
0.8 
3.2 



Geoff Bascand
Government Statistician
6 August 2007
ISSN 1178-0525


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

 



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



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