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Labour cost index, human health and social work, Belgium

Released 19 August 2026

125.8 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.

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125.8Labour cost index, human health and social work, Belgium, the second quarter of 2025, provisional
2023-Q3105.3
2023-Q4132.2
2024-Q1109.7
2024-Q2123.3
2024-Q3109.4
2024-Q4134.9
2025-Q1114.1
2025-Q2125.8p
Eurostat, lc_lci_r2_q, 2023-Q3 to 2025-Q2. p provisional. CC BY 4.0.
125.8Labour cost index, human health and social work, Belgium, the second quarter of 2025, beside 4 others
Norway148.3p
Netherlands144.0p
Germany127.3
Belgium125.8p
Finland123.0p
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, human health and social work, Belgium
PeriodValueStatusReleased
2025-Q2125.8provisional19 August 2026
2025-Q1114.119 August 2026
2024-Q4134.919 August 2026
2024-Q3109.419 August 2026
2024-Q2123.319 August 2026
2024-Q1109.719 August 2026
2023-Q4132.219 August 2026
2023-Q3105.319 August 2026
2023-Q2118.519 August 2026
2023-Q1107.419 August 2026
2022-Q4126.519 August 2026
2022-Q3100.619 August 2026
2022-Q2111.619 August 2026
2022-Q197.819 August 2026
2021-Q4115.119 August 2026
2021-Q392.119 August 2026
2021-Q2103.519 August 2026
2021-Q193.419 August 2026
2020-Q4112.819 August 2026
2020-Q392.119 August 2026
2020-Q2103.519 August 2026
2020-Q191.619 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.

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Papers that read this dataset

Labour costs rose 26.5%, yet salary rarely blocks a vacancyThat is more than Germany at 23.1% and nearly double France at 14.1%.August 2026

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