We use only the cookies needed to run the site and keep you signed in. No analytics, no advertising. Your answer covers anything optional we add later.

Cookie statement
IPMERC Research

Labour cost index, business economy and services, Belgium

Released 19 August 2026

122.4 in the second quarter of 2025, provisional. Total hourly labour cost, wages plus employer contributions, as an index with 2020 at 100. Nominal, unadjusted for the season.

122.4Labour cost index, business economy and services, Belgium, the second quarter of 2025, provisional
2023-Q3109.9
2023-Q4130.3
2024-Q1110.8
2024-Q2118.5
2024-Q3112.7
2024-Q4133.1
2025-Q1114.8
2025-Q2122.4p
Eurostat, lc_lci_r2_q, 2023-Q3 to 2025-Q2. p provisional. CC BY 4.0.
122.4Labour cost index, business economy and services, Belgium, the second quarter of 2025, beside 5 others
Norway153.9p
Netherlands143.1p
Germany131.0
Finland127.5p
Belgium122.4p
France115.1p
Eurostat, lc_lci_r2_q, 2025-Q2: the newest period every country has filed. p provisional. CC BY 4.0.

What it does not measure

An index compares a country with its own 2020, not with another country's level. Sector codes follow NACE Rev. 2.

Every figure kept

Labour cost index, business economy and services, Belgium
PeriodValueStatusReleased
2025-Q2122.4provisional19 August 2026
2025-Q1114.819 August 2026
2024-Q4133.119 August 2026
2024-Q3112.719 August 2026
2024-Q2118.519 August 2026
2024-Q1110.819 August 2026
2023-Q4130.319 August 2026
2023-Q3109.919 August 2026
2023-Q2115.619 August 2026
2023-Q1108.619 August 2026
2022-Q4121.819 August 2026
2022-Q3101.819 August 2026
2022-Q2106.419 August 2026
2022-Q198.819 August 2026
2021-Q4113.819 August 2026
2021-Q395.219 August 2026
2021-Q2100.819 August 2026
2021-Q194.719 August 2026
2020-Q4111.619 August 2026
2020-Q394.619 August 2026
2020-Q2100.119 August 2026
2020-Q193.819 August 2026

Source: Eurostat, lc_lci_r2_q, index, 2020 = 100. Eurostat, CC BY 4.0. Free to reuse with attribution to Eurostat; the table on this page may be copied as it stands.

Revisions

Eurostat keeps only the newest value. These are the earlier values this cell carried, from the releases the feed has seen.

No revision seen since the feed started watching this cell.

Papers that read this dataset

The same figure elsewhere

Other sectors, same country