"Figure 2: Labour costs per hour quarter-on-quarter growth, seasonally adjusted – whole economy, private sector and public sector","" "UK, Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2009 to Quarter 2 (Apr to June) 2018","" "","" "Notes","1. Q1 refers to Quarter 1 (January to March), Q2 refers to Quarter 2 (April to June), Q3 refers to Quarter 3 (July to September) and Q4 refers to Quarter 4 (October to December). " "Unit","%" "","" "","Whole economy","Private sector","Public sector" "2009Q4","0.1","1.0","-1.2" "2010Q1","1.6","0.0","1.9" "2010Q2","-1.1","-0.7","-1.1" "2010Q3","0.6","0.1","1.8" "2010Q4","0.5","0.1","1.5" "2011Q1","0.8","0.9","-0.6" "2011Q2","-0.3","0.1","2.5" "2011Q3","0.3","0.2","-1.3" "2011Q4","0.7","0.3","2.9" "2012Q1","-0.6","0.3","-3.4" "2012Q2","0.2","0.6","0.0" "2012Q3","0.3","0.1","-0.8" "2012Q4","-0.1","0.0","-0.2" "2013Q1","0.2","-0.3","1.5" "2013Q2","0.7","1.5","-0.2" "2013Q3","-0.4","-0.6","-0.6" "2013Q4","0.2","0.2","0.4" "2014Q1","0.6","0.2","1.4" "2014Q2","-0.2","-0.1","0.2" "2014Q3","0.5","0.5","0.0" "2014Q4","1.3","1.7","0.8" "2015Q1","1.4","0.7","1.2" "2015Q2","0.4","0.7","-1.2" "2015Q3","1.4","1.3","2.8" "2015Q4","-0.5","-0.4","-1.8" "2016Q1","1.2","1.4","1.0" "2016Q2","1.0","1.7","1.2" "2016Q3","-0.1","-0.5","-0.9" "2016Q4","0.3","0.2","1.5" "2017Q1 (r)","0.1","0.5","-1.3" "2017Q2 (r)","1.2","1.1","0.7" "2017Q3 (r)","1.5","1.3","2.1" "2017Q4","1.1","1.2","1.0" "2018Q1 (r)","0.4","0.2","0.8" "2018Q2 (p)","0.2","0.5","0.1"