"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 4 (Oct to Dec) 2016","" "","" "Notes","1. 1. Labour costs per hour estimates will differ from those in the ONS bulletin Index of Labour Costs per Hour due to differences in methodology. 2. Q1 refers to Quarter 1 (January to March), Q2 refers to Quarter 2 (April to June), Q3 (July to September) and Q4 refers to Quarter 4 (October to December)." "Unit","Percentage points" "","" "Quarter","ULC","Output per hour (sign reversed)","Labour costs per hour" "Q1 2008","2.60","-0.50","3.10" "Q2 2008","0.90","-0.80","1.70" "Q3 2008","1.80","1.30","0.50" "Q4 2008","3.80","3.70","0.10" "Q1 2009","3.30","2.90","0.40" "Q2 2009","6.80","3.20","3.60" "Q3 2009","5.30","1.10","4.20" "Q4 2009","5.20","-0.80","6.00" "Q1 2010","3.60","-1.60","5.20" "Q2 2010","0.40","-1.80","2.20" "Q3 2010","0.60","-1.50","2.10" "Q4 2010","-1.60","-1.30","-0.30" "Q1 2011","-0.10","-0.80","0.70" "Q2 2011","0.20","-1.50","1.70" "Q3 2011","-0.60","-0.80","0.20" "Q4 2011","0.90","-0.70","1.60" "Q1 2012","1.50","-0.10","1.60" "Q2 2012","1.50","1.40","0.10" "Q3 2012","2.80","0.80","2.00" "Q4 2012","1.40","1.20","0.20" "Q1 2013","0.60","0.70","-0.10" "Q2 2013","3.10","0.20","2.90" "Q3 2013","1.70","1.00","0.70" "Q4 2013","2.30","0.00","2.30" "Q1 2014","1.70","0.20","1.50" "Q2 2014","-1.90","0.00","-1.90" "Q3 2014","-1.30","-1.30","0.00" "Q4 2014","-1.20","-1.30","0.10" "Q1 2015","-0.60","-1.10","0.50" "Q2 2015","0.90","-1.60","2.50" "Q3 2015","1.70","-1.10","2.80" "Q4 2015","1.20","0.20","1.00" "Q1 2016","1.30","-0.30","1.60" "Q2 2016","2.50","0.10","2.40" "Q3 2016","2.50","0.10","2.40" "Q4 2016","2.10","-1.20","3.30"