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


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Highlights


In the year to the September 2007 quarter:

  • Salary and wage rates (including overtime) increased 3.1 percent.
  • Overtime wage rates increased 3.5 percent.
  • The mean increase for all surveyed salary and ordinary time wage rates that rose 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 sectors
1.0
3.1
0.9
3.1
Public sector
1.3
2.9
1.3
3.0
Private sector
0.9
3.3
0.9
3.2



Geoff Bascand
Government Statistician
5 November 2007
ISSN 1178-0525


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

 



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



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