Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 20 October 2009
161 Deputy Richard Bruton asked the Taoiseach the quarterly findings on weekly earnings from the earning hours and employment costs survey since Q1 2008 in respect of the sectors newly introduced, distinguishing the contributions of regular earnings, overtime earnings and irregular earnings, and showing the hours worked. [36672/09]
View answerThe quarterly Earnings, Hours and Employment Costs Survey (EHECS) is a new quarterly survey which is being phased in to replace all other existing CSO short-term earnings inquiries.
The survey was rolled out to the Industrial and Financial sectors from Q4 2005 onwards and was extended to other sectors in Q1 2008. The next EHECS quarterly publication (for Q2 2009) will be extended to provide economy-wide coverage of earnings and labour cost data when the information requested will be available.
The current data for the Industrial and Financial sectors (up to Q1 2009) is set out as follows:
|
NACE sector |
Earnings |
2007Q1 |
2007Q2 |
2007Q3 |
2007Q4 |
2008Q1 |
2008Q2 |
2008Q3 |
2008Q4 |
2009Q1* |
|
€ |
€ |
€ |
€ |
€ |
€ |
€ |
€ |
€ |
||
|
Industry (B-E) |
Regular |
17.24 |
17.61 |
17.60 |
18.13 |
18.15 |
18.21 |
18.40 |
19.08 |
19.63 |
|
Overtime |
1.16 |
1.22 |
1.19 |
1.21 |
1.12 |
1.18 |
1.12 |
1.09 |
0.91 |
|
|
Irregular |
1.10 |
0.73 |
0.46 |
0.99 |
1.55 |
0.96 |
0.74 |
1.28 |
1.51 |
|
|
Total |
19.51 |
19.56 |
19.25 |
20.34 |
20.82 |
20.35 |
20.26 |
21.44 |
22.05 |
|
|
Financial and insurance activities (K) |
Regular |
24.58 |
24.88 |
24.67 |
25.58 |
25.72 |
26.60 |
26.33 |
26.95 |
27.25 |
|
Overtime |
0.55 |
0.60 |
0.47 |
0.50 |
0.45 |
0.46 |
0.39 |
0.44 |
0.32 |
|
|
Irregular |
6.68 |
6.39 |
1.28 |
2.88 |
8.00 |
5.90 |
1.25 |
2.80 |
2.79 |
|
|
Total |
31.82 |
31.86 |
26.42 |
28.96 |
34.17 |
32.96 |
27.98 |
30.18 |
30.37 |
*Provisional.
