New Zealand - Compensation of employees

Compensation of employees (current LCU)

The value for Compensation of employees (current LCU) in New Zealand was 24,035,760,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 47 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 24,035,760,000 in 2019 and a minimum value of 513,000,000 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 513,000,000
1973 601,000,000
1974 708,000,000
1975 844,000,000
1976 926,000,000
1977 1,072,000,000
1978 1,317,000,000
1979 1,546,000,000
1980 1,955,000,000
1981 2,323,000,000
1982 2,466,000,000
1983 2,547,000,000
1984 2,668,000,000
1985 3,112,000,000
1986 3,908,000,000
1987 4,615,000,000
1988 4,767,000,000
2001 10,313,800,000
2002 11,356,280,000
2003 10,915,020,000
2004 11,938,510,000
2005 12,936,660,000
2006 13,954,000,000
2007 14,600,000,000
2008 16,405,000,000
2009 16,202,860,000
2010 16,830,810,000
2011 17,522,600,000
2012 18,113,410,000
2013 18,487,290,000
2014 18,975,890,000
2015 19,708,530,000
2016 20,305,190,000
2017 21,127,700,000
2018 22,151,850,000
2019 24,035,760,000

Compensation of employees (% of expense)

Compensation of employees (% of expense) in New Zealand was 24.73 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 47 years was 27.34 in 2002, while its lowest value was 17.18 in 1984.

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 25.15
1973 25.06
1974 25.31
1975 23.59
1976 23.27
1977 21.83
1978 21.74
1979 22.07
1980 23.22
1981 21.87
1982 19.95
1983 18.82
1984 17.18
1985 17.85
1986 18.00
1987 17.22
1988 17.34
2001 25.40
2002 27.34
2003 24.20
2004 25.38
2005 25.62
2006 25.85
2007 24.98
2008 26.54
2009 24.43
2010 24.18
2011 20.52
2012 23.77
2013 24.00
2014 24.16
2015 24.47
2016 24.35
2017 24.29
2018 24.36
2019 24.73

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance