Wages, Salaries and Labour Costs

Statistics

Central government monthly salaries

The statistics on central government monthly salaries describe the numbers and earnings of employees remunerated within the framework of the national budget by variables like industry, occupation, education, gender and age.

Index of wage and salary earnings

This is an index measuring development in wage and salary earners’ earnings for regular working hours.

Labour cost index

The labour cost index measures the quarterly change in average labour costs per hour worked.

Labour cost survey

The labour cost survey describes the level and structure of labour costs at intervals of a fixed number of years.

Local government sector wages and salaries

The statistics on local government sector wages and salaries describe the numbers and earnings of employees of municipalities and joint municipal boards by variables like industry, occupation, education, gender and age.

Private sector hourly wages

The statistics on private sector hourly wages describe the numbers and earnings levels of hourly paid employees by gender, age, occupational group and education.

Private sector monthly salaries

The statistics on private sector monthly salaries describe the numbers and earnings levels of the monthly paid employees of private enterprises and non-profit institutions by occupation, education of occupational group, gender and age.

Structure of Earnings

Structural statistics on wages and salaries describe the numbers, hourly and monthly earnings, and the formation and distribution of employees’ wages and salaries in all employer sectors.

Wage and salary indices

Wage and salary indices describe the monthly development of the wages and salaries sum in different industries.

See also related statistics

• Financial statement statistics on business services
  Topic: Enterprises
• Statistics on labour disputes
  Topic: Labour Market

Revisions in statistics

• Base year of the wage and salary indices changes
  Statistics: Wage and salary indices
  04 Mar 2013
• Index of Wage and Salary Earnings has been revised
  Statistics: Index of wage and salary earnings
  15 Oct 2012
• Index of wage and Salary Earnings statistical databases were updated on 22 October 2012
  Statistics: Index of wage and salary earnings
  15 Oct 2012
• Seasonal adjusted labor costs included in the index
  Statistics: Labour cost index
  24 Sep 2012
• Municipal sector labor cost data included in the index
  Statistics: Labour cost index
  06 Sep 2012
• Government labor cost data included in the index
  Statistics: Labour cost index
  08 Jun 2012
• The Classification of Occupations 2010 will be introduced in these statistics in September 2011
  Statistics: Private sector hourly wages
  16 May 2011

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Latest releases

(Statistics Finlands statistics only)

• Cost of an hour worked increased by 4.1 per cent in January to March
  10 Jun 2013
• Wages and salaries sum grew by 1.7 per cent year-on-year in February to April
  10 Jun 2013
• Wage and salary earners' earnings rose by 2.2 per cent in January-March
  30 May 2013
• Wages and salaries sum grew by 1.1 per cent year-on-year in January to March
  15 May 2013
• Wages and salaries sum grew by 0.9 per cent year-on-year in December to February
  11 Apr 2013
• Average pay of those with lower university level degrees has contracted compared to other levels of education in the 2000s
  05 Apr 2013
• Wages and salaries sum grew by 1.9 per cent year-on-year in November to January
  13 Mar 2013

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Future releases

(Statistics Finlands statistics only)

• Wage and salary indices 2013, May (in Finnish, in Swedish, in English)
  12 Jul 2013
• Wage and salary indices 2013, June (in Finnish, in Swedish, in English)
  12 Aug 2013
• Index of wage and salary earnings 2013, 2nd quarter (in Finnish, in Swedish, in English)
  28 Aug 2013
• Labour cost index 2013, 2nd quarter (in Finnish, in Swedish, in English)
  9 Sep 2013
• Wage and salary indices 2013, July (in Finnish, in Swedish, in English)
  10 Sep 2013
• Structure of Earnings 2012 (preliminary data) (in Finnish, in Swedish, in English)
  11 Oct 2013
• Wage and salary indices 2013, August (in Finnish, in Swedish, in English)
  11 Oct 2013
• Index of wage and salary earnings 2013, 3rd quarter (in Finnish, in Swedish, in English)
  15 Oct 2013
• Wage and salary indices 2013, September (in Finnish, in Swedish, in English)
  11 Nov 2013
• Labour cost index 2013, 3rd quarter (in Finnish, in Swedish, in English)
  10 Dec 2013
• Wage and salary indices 2013, October (in Finnish, in Swedish, in English)
  11 Dec 2013

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Latest press releases

• Statistical images of Finland and Finns
  11 Dec 2012
• Statistics Finland is making further utilisation of statistical data easier
  25 Jan 2012
• One day of life in Finland
  07 Dec 2011

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