"Figure 2: Labour costs per hour decreased by 0.7% from Quarter 4 2018 to Quarter 1 2019, following a large rise in the previous quarter","" "Labour costs per hour quarter-on-quarter growth, seasonally adjusted – whole economy, private sector and public sector, UK, Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2010 to Quarter 1 2019","" "","" "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" "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","0.1","0.5","-1.3" "2017Q2","1.1","1.0","0.8" "2017Q3","1.5","1.4","2.5" "2017Q4 (r)","0.6","0.7","0.3" "2018Q1 (r)","0.8","0.6","1.2" "2018Q2 (r)","0.3","0.5","0.2" "2018Q3","0.4","0.3","1.2" "2018Q4 (r)","2.1","2.0","2.1" "2019Q1 (p)","-0.7","-0.8","0.1"