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Published: 11 January 2019

Wages and salaries sum grew by 4.4 per cent year-on-year in September to November

According to Statistics Finland’s data, the wages and salaries sum of the whole economy was 4.4 per cent greater in the September to November period than in the corresponding period twelve months earlier. In November, the wages and salaries sum of the whole economy grew by 6.3 per cent from the year before. One year previously in September to November, the wages and salaries sum of the whole economy increased by 3.4 per cent.

Three months’ year-on-year change in the wages and salaries sum, % (TOL 2008)

In September to November, the wages and salaries sum increased faster than the whole economy in the industries of private health and social work (6.5%), construction (6.3%) and other services (5.7%). The increase in the wages and salaries sum was most moderate in the industries of manufacturing (2.6%) and private education (1.8%).

Wages and salaries sum grew by 5.0 per cent year-on-year in the private sector in September to November

The wages and salaries sum in the private sector was 5.0 per cent greater in September to November than twelve months earlier. The wages and salaries sum of the public sector was 3.8 per cent higher than in the corresponding period one year previously. In November, the wages and salaries sum in the private sector increased by 7.8 per cent and in the public sector by 4.2 per cent from one year earlier. In September to November one year ago, the wages and salaries sum grew by 4.9 per cent in the private sector and by 0.7 per cent in the public sector from the previous year.

Three months’ year-on-year change in the wages and salaries sum of the whole economy, and the private and the public sector, % (TOL 2008 and S 2012)

The wages and salaries sum refers to the sum total of the gross wages and salaries paid to employees without incentive stock options. The wages and salaries sum is influenced by changes in employment and in the earnings level of wage and salary earners.

Source data of the wage and salary indices will change in 2019

Starting from 1 January 2019, all wage and salary income and earned income used in the wage and salary indices are reported to the Incomes Register. Therefore, data published in March 2019 concerning the wage and salary indices concerning January 2019 come from different data than before due to the change. The data previously derived from the Tax Administration's data on self-assessed taxes. Read more about the change: Changes in these statistics.

Industries of enterprises have been revised in the data released in January

Starting from this statistical release the latest industries defined by the Business Register have been taken into use in the turnover and wage and salary indices. The industry corrections are visible as revised data in some of the published industries for the years 2017-2018. The effects of the changes are taken into consideration in statistics production so that no breaks occur in the time series of the published index series. The interpretation of the statistics also remains unchanged in the renewal. Revisions to annual changes in industries are presented under Revisions in these statistics.

Source: Wage and salary indices, Statistics Finland

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• Appendix table 1. Year-on-year change in the sum of wages and salaries by industry and sector, % (TOL 2008 and S 2012) (11.1.2019)

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• Appendix figure 1. Trends in the sum of wages and salaries by industry (TOL 2008) (11.1.2019)
• Appendix figure 2. Trends in the sum of wages and salaries by sector (S 2012) (11.1.2019)

Revisions in these statistics

• Revisions in these statistics (11.1.2019)

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Updated 11.1.2019