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

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

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)