About Us

The primary role of the division is to provide relevant, timely and high quality statistical information on earnings and other employment costs. The division is organised into the following sections:

Quarterly Industry and Services

This section conducts quarterly surveys of industrial local units and publishes estimates of employment, average weekly earnings, hours worked and hourly earnings.

Quarterly surveys for the public service, banking, insurance and building societies are also conducted by this section. Estimates of employment and average weekly earnings are published for these sectors.

Structure of Earnings and Labour Costs Surveys

This section conducts (on an alternating two-year basis) the EU Labour Costs Survey (covers most of the industrial and service sectors) and the National Employment Survey (NES) (covers all sectors of the economy). This National Employment Survey replaces the Structure of Earnings Survey which was last carried out in 1996. Click here for more information on the National Employment Survey.

Labour Cost Index and Public Sector Development

The role of this section is to plan and implement reorganisation in the division to cater for emerging national and EU requirements in the area of earnings and labour costs. The national requirements include economy wide earnings estimates and a new public sector earnings index. The main EU requirement is the provision of economy wide (excluding agriculture) labour cost indices on a quarterly basis with a timeliness of 70 days or less.

Quarterly Stocks and Investment

This section conducts quarterly surveys of industrial and service sectors. Estimates of stocks and capital acquisitions and disposals are published on a quarterly basis.

Estimates of average weekly earnings for full-time employees in the distribution and business services sectors are also published by this section on a quarterly basis.