Concept selected: Labour costs

Definition

Labour costs mean the total expenditure borne by employers in order to employ staff, a concept which has been adopted in the Community framework and complies broadly with the international definition of the International Conference of Labour Statisticians (Geneva, 1966). Labour costs include compensation of employees (D.1) with wages and salaries in cash or in kind and employers' social contributions, vocational-training costs (D.2), other expenditures (D.3), taxes relating to employment regarded as labour costs (D.4), less any subsidies received (D.5). The costs for persons employed by temporary employment agencies are to be included in the industry of the agency which employs them (NACE Rev. 2, 78,20) and not in the industry of the enterprise for which they actually work.

Source

Commission Regulation (EC) No 973/2007 of 20 August 2007 amending certain EC Regulations on specific statistical domains implementing the statistical classification of economic activities NACE Revision 2More information

Topic

• Work, income and wage costs

Statistical operations (links to the Inventory of Statistical Operations)

• 30132 - Labour Cost Survey
• 30187 - Quarterly Labour Cost Survey (QLCS)
• 30188 - Annual Labour Cost Survey
• 30211 - Harmonised Labour Cost Index

Concepts associated

• Compensation of employees (D.1)
• Labour cost index (LCI)
• Subsidies received by the employer (D.5)