Labour Cost Index (Salary and Wage Rates): September 2009 quarter

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See also Quarterly Employment Survey: September 2009 quarter – Media release

Highlights

From the September 2008 quarter to the September 2009 quarter:

  • Salary and wage rates (including overtime) increased 2.1 percent.
  • Overtime wage rates increased 2.8 percent.
  • Private sector salary and ordinary time wage rates increased 1.9 percent.

Sector

Salary and ordinary time wage rates
Percentage change
All salary and wage rates (including overtime)
Percentage change
From previous quarter From previous year From previous quarter  From previous year
All sectors 0.5 2.1 0.5 2.1
Public sector 1.1 2.9 1.1 2.9
Private sector 0.4 1.9 0.4 2.0

 

Graph, All salary and wage rates annual percentage change 

 

Geoff Bascand  3 November 2009 
Government Statistician  ISSN 1178-0525