Ireland - Compensation of employees

Compensation of employees (current LCU)

The value for Compensation of employees (current LCU) in Ireland was 21,193,210,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 47 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 21,193,210,000 in 2019 and a minimum value of 146,019,900 in 1972.

Definition: Compensation of employees consists of all payments in cash, as well as in kind (such as food and housing), to employees in return for services rendered, and government contributions to social insurance schemes such as social security and pensions that provide benefits to employees.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

Year Value
1972 146,019,900
1973 176,493,600
1974 206,967,300
1975 295,849,000
1976 351,717,400
1977 393,618,800
1978 463,454,400
1979 580,270,300
1980 728,829,600
1981 959,922,000
1982 1,177,047,000
1983 1,272,278,000
1984 1,384,014,000
1985 1,483,054,000
1986 1,577,015,000
1987 1,668,436,000
1988 1,625,265,000
1989 1,679,863,000
1990 1,903,337,000
1991 2,095,068,000
1992 2,294,417,000
1993 2,383,298,000
1994 2,477,259,000
1995 3,483,391,000
1996 3,639,347,000
1997 3,909,088,000
1998 4,153,073,000
1999 4,319,651,000
2000 4,672,052,000
2001 5,238,028,000
2002 5,868,352,000
2003 6,431,858,000
2004 7,009,829,000
2005 13,993,480,000
2006 15,398,150,000
2007 17,402,030,000
2008 18,503,250,000
2009 18,249,530,000
2010 17,150,210,000
2011 17,321,850,000
2012 17,162,150,000
2013 17,028,860,000
2014 17,207,230,000
2015 17,603,210,000
2016 18,144,330,000
2017 19,254,250,000
2018 20,172,000,000
2019 21,193,210,000

Compensation of employees (% of expense)

Compensation of employees (% of expense) in Ireland was 26.83 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 27.66 in 2007, while its lowest value was 12.57 in 1988.

Definition: Compensation of employees consists of all payments in cash, as well as in kind (such as food and housing), to employees in return for services rendered, and government contributions to social insurance schemes such as social security and pensions that provide benefits to employees.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also:

Year Value
1972 15.86
1973 15.89
1974 15.31
1975 15.61
1976 14.91
1977 14.10
1978 13.51
1979 13.83
1980 13.46
1981 13.96
1982 13.44
1983 12.90
1984 13.05
1985 12.66
1986 12.92
1987 12.87
1988 12.57
1989 13.59
1990 14.07
1991 14.37
1992 14.63
1993 14.05
1994 13.77
1995 17.10
1996 17.11
1997 17.03
1998 16.61
1999 15.83
2000 15.55
2001 14.80
2002 14.64
2003 14.86
2004 15.10
2005 27.01
2006 27.16
2007 27.66
2008 26.65
2009 24.44
2010 16.43
2011 22.80
2012 24.43
2013 24.68
2014 25.09
2015 24.43
2016 25.67
2017 26.29
2018 26.27
2019 26.83

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance