Compensation of employees, employment; quarterly, National Accounts

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 and 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 Status of the figures: Data from 1995 up to and including 2019 are final. Dates of 2020 and further are provisional. Changes as of June 24th 2022: Dates of 2020 and 2021 have been revised. Data of the second estimate of the first quarter 2022 have been added to the table. When will new figures be published? The preliminary estimate (flash estimate) of a quarter is released within 45 days. The second estimate is published after 85 days. At the second estimate of the fourth quarter, data of the previous three quarters will also be revised.