Labour Cost Index: (All Labour Costs): June 2005 quarter (final)

Embargoed until 10:45am  –  06 December 2005
Media release  – 
Labour Costs Rise

Highlights

From the June 2004 quarter to the June 2005 quarter:

  • Surveyed labour costs rose 2.7 percent.
  • Non-wage labour costs rose 3.0 percent.
  • Annual leave and statutory holiday costs rose 2.9 percent.
  • Superannuation costs rose 7.3 percent.
  • Workplace accident insurance costs rose 7.2 percent.
  • Other non-wage labour costs (vehicles, medical insurance and low interest loans) fell 2.8 percent.
  • These results are final and revisions have been made to the indexes.

Please see the Commentary for further details.

  

Graph, All Labour Costs.

Graph, All Non-wage Labour Costs.

 

Brian Pink  6 December 2005
Government Statistician Cat 63.904 Set 05/06 – 092