Labour Cost Index (Salary and Wage Rates) – Information releases

A measure of movements in base salary and ordinary time wage rates, and overtime wage rates.

Latest releases

• Labour Cost Index (Salary and Wage Rates): June 2010 quarter 
• Labour Cost Index (Salary and Wage Rates): March 2010 quarter
• Labour Cost Index (Salary and Wage Rates): December 2009 quarter
• Labour Cost Index (Salary and Wage Rates): September 2009 quarter 
• Labour Cost Index (Salary and Wage Rates): June 2009 quarter 

The Labour Cost Index (Salary and Wage Rates): March 2009 quarter Hot Off The Press scheduled for publication on Monday 4 May 2009 was delayed until 3:00pm on Wednesday 6 May 2009. Further details have been published in the Hot Off The Press.

The latest releases contain tables on:

• all industries/occupations combined - all salary and wage rates by sector
• all sectors combined - contributions to annual change in all salary and wage rates
• public sector, private sector and all sectors combined - all salary and wage rates by industry.

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See also

• Price indexes

Source

Source: Labour Cost Survey
Frequency: Quarterly
Available from: June 1998
Geographic Coverage: National
ISSN: 1178-0525

Previous releases

• Labour Cost Index (Salary and Wage Rates): March 2009 quarter
• Labour Cost Index (Salary and Wage Rates): December 2008 quarter
• Labour Cost Index (Salary and Wage Rates): September 2008 quarter (Revised 2 February 2009) 

You can find previous releases dating back to March 2006 here. For releases prior to this please complete this request form.

Time series

Time series data can be accessed from the Infoshare database.

Subject category: Work, income and spending
Group: Labour Cost Index