"Figure 4: Whole economy unit labour costs and their compositions, growth on quarter a year ago ","" "Seasonally adjusted, UK, Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2008 to Quarter 2 2017","" "","" "Notes","1. Labour costs per hour estimates will differ from those in our Index of Labour Costs per Hour bulletin, due to differences in methodology." "Unit","Percentage points " "","" "Date","ULC","Output per hour (sign reversed)","Labour costs per hour" "2008 Q1","2.3","-0.5","2.8" "2008 Q2","0.9","-0.9","1.8" "2008 Q3","1.8","1","0.8" "2008 Q4","3.7","3.4","0.2" "2009 Q1","2.8","2.5","0.2" "2009 Q2","6.1","3","2.9" "2009 Q3","4.6","1","3.6" "2009 Q4","4.6","-0.8","5.5" "2010 Q1","3.1","-1.5","4.7" "2010 Q2","0.3","-1.6","1.9" "2010 Q3","0.8","-1.2","2" "2010 Q4","-1.2","-0.9","-0.3" "2011 Q1","0.4","-0.6","1.1" "2011 Q2","0.3","-1.5","1.9" "2011 Q3","-0.8","-0.9","0.1" "2011 Q4","0.8","-0.7","1.6" "2012 Q1","0.8","-0.4","1.2" "2012 Q2","1.4","1.4","0" "2012 Q3","2.7","0.8","1.9" "2012 Q4","1.2","1","0.2" "2013 Q1","0.8","0.8","0" "2013 Q2","3.2","0.1","3.1" "2013 Q3","1.7","0.8","0.9" "2013 Q4","2.3","-0.2","2.5" "2014 Q1","1.6","-0.1","1.7" "2014 Q2","-2.2","-0.2","-2" "2014 Q3","-1.6","-1.3","-0.3" "2014 Q4","-1.5","-1.4","-0.2" "2015 Q1","-0.6","-1.1","0.5" "2015 Q2","0.7","-1.8","2.4" "2015 Q3","2","-1.3","3.3" "2015 Q4","1.4","0.3","1" "2016 Q1","1.5","-0.2","1.6" "2016 Q2","2.9","0.3","2.6" "2016 Q3","2.6","0.3","2.3" "2016 Q4","2.5","-1.1","3.6" "2017 Q1","2.4","-0.1","2.5" "2017 Q2","1.6","0.3","1.4"