Compensation of employees, employment; quarterly, NA, 1995-2018
| Sector/branches (SIC 2008) | Periods | Compensation of employees Year-on-year change Compensation of employees (%) | Compensation of employees Year-on-year change Wages and salaries (%) | Compensation of employees Year-on-year change Wage costs (%) | Labour volume Year-on-year change Full-time equivalent (fte) (%) | Labour volume Year-on-year change Hours worked (%) | Jobs of employees Year-on-year change Total (%) | Jobs of employees Year-on-year change Male (%) | Jobs of employees Year-on-year change Female (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-U All economic activities | 2018 1st quarter* | . | . | . | 3.1 | 0.8 | 3.0 | 3.3 | 2.8 |
| A Agriculture, forestry and fishing | 2018 1st quarter* | . | . | . | 2.5 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.4 |
| B-E Industry (no construction), energy | 2018 1st quarter* | . | . | . | 1.5 | -0.4 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| C Manufacturing | 2018 1st quarter* | . | . | . | 1.5 | -0.5 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| F Construction | 2018 1st quarter* | . | . | . | 3.1 | -0.4 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 3.1 |
| G-I Trade, transport, hotels, catering | 2018 1st quarter* | . | . | . | 4.4 | 1.1 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 2.7 |
| J Information and communication | 2018 1st quarter* | . | . | . | 4.1 | 1.4 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.7 |
| K Financial institutions | 2018 1st quarter* | . | . | . | -2.8 | -2.2 | -2.7 | -1.6 | -4.0 |
| L Renting, buying, selling real estate | 2018 1st quarter* | . | . | . | 0.9 | -0.4 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 0.6 |
| M-N Business services | 2018 1st quarter* | . | . | . | 6.3 | 2.6 | 6.6 | 6.7 | 6.3 |
| 78 Employment activities | 2018 1st quarter* | . | . | . | 9.6 | 4.6 | 9.9 | 9.6 | 10.4 |
| O-Q Government and care | 2018 1st quarter* | . | . | . | 1.1 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 2.0 |
| O Public administration and services | 2018 1st quarter* | . | . | . | 1.9 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 3.4 |
| P Education | 2018 1st quarter* | . | . | . | 0.4 | -0.3 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 1.2 |
| Q Health and social work activities | 2018 1st quarter* | . | . | . | 1.1 | 0.1 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 2.0 |
| R-U Culture, recreation, other services | 2018 1st quarter* | . | . | . | 3.7 | 1.4 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 2.3 |
| Source: CBS. | |||||||||
Table explanation
This table provides annual and quarterly data about the compensation of employees, the wage costs and the labour volume of employees. Compensation of employees is classified in wages and salaries and employers' social contributions. The wage costs are the total of wages, social contributions paid by employers and taxes on wage costs minus wage cost subsidies. The labour volume is given in jobs (by sex), full-time equivalent (fte) and hours worked. The seasonal adjusted time series about the compensation of employees and the wages & salaries are also available in this table. The table additionally provides the compensation of employees, wages and salaries and wage costs related to full-time equivalents and hours worked.
Data available from: 1995 first quarter up to and including 2018 first quarter.
Status of the figures:
Data from 1995 up to and including 2014 are final. Data of 2015 and further are provisional. Since this table has been discontinued, data of 2015 and further will not become final.
Changes as of June 22nd 2018:
None. This table has been discontinued.
Statistics Netherlands has carried out a revision of the national accounts. New statistical sources and estimation methods have been used during the revision. Therefore this table has been replaced by table Compensation of employees, employment; quarterly, National Accounts. For further information see section 3.
When will new figures be published?
Not applicable anymore.
Description topics
- Compensation of employees
- Compensation of employees is the total remuneration paid by employers to their employees in return for work done. Compensation of employees is classified in wages and salaries and employers' social contributions.
- Year-on-year change
- %-change with respect to the previous year
- Compensation of employees
- Compensation of employees is the total remuneration paid by employers to their employees in return for work done. Compensation of employees is classified in wages and salaries and employers' social contributions.
- Wages and salaries
- Wages and salaries include income taxes and employees' social contributions even if they are actually withheld by the employer and paid directly to tax authorities, social security schemes and pension schemes. Besides wages that are periodically and directly paid to employees, wages and salaries also contain wages in kind and holiday allowances. Furthermore, certain refunds for costs made by the employee are included as well.
- Wage costs
- The total of wages, social contributions paid by employers and taxes on wage costs minus wage cost subsidies.
- Labour volume
- The volume of labour input in the production process, in terms of hours worked or full-time equivalents
- Year-on-year change
- %-change with respect to the previous year
- Full-time equivalent (fte)
- A measure of labour volume, calculated by converting all full-time and part-time jobs to full-time jobs.
- Hours worked
- The number of hours actually worked by someone with a paid job.
- Jobs of employees
- A job is an explicit or implicit employment contract between a person and an economic unit which specifies that labour will be carried out in return for (financial) remuneration.
A distinction is made between jobs of employees and jobs of self-employed persons. In this table only jobs of employees are included.- Year-on-year change
- %-change with respect to the previous year
- Total
- Male
- Female