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Labour cost index, manufacturing, Norway

Released 19 August 2026

114.6 in the first quarter of 2026, provisional. Total hourly labour cost, wages plus employer contributions, as an index with 2020 at 100. Nominal, unadjusted for the season.

114.6Labour cost index, manufacturing, Norway, the first quarter of 2026, provisional
2024-Q2137.3p
2024-Q3117.0p
2024-Q4113.9p
2025-Q1110.0p
2025-Q2155.5p
2025-Q3120.4p
2025-Q4113.6p
2026-Q1114.6p
Eurostat, lc_lci_r2_q, 2024-Q2 to 2026-Q1. p provisional. CC BY 4.0.
155.5Labour cost index, manufacturing, Norway, the second quarter of 2025, beside 5 others
Norway155.5p
Netherlands148.3p
Germany131.2
Finland128.6p
Belgium120.6p
France116.5p
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, manufacturing, Norway
PeriodValueStatusReleased
2026-Q1114.6provisional19 August 2026
2025-Q4113.6provisional19 August 2026
2025-Q3120.4provisional19 August 2026
2025-Q2155.5provisional19 August 2026
2025-Q1110.0provisional19 August 2026
2024-Q4113.9provisional19 August 2026
2024-Q3117.0provisional19 August 2026
2024-Q2137.3provisional19 August 2026
2024-Q1106.9provisional19 August 2026
2023-Q4106.9provisional19 August 2026
2023-Q3110.4provisional19 August 2026
2023-Q2136.6provisional19 August 2026
2023-Q195.4provisional19 August 2026
2022-Q496.9provisional19 August 2026
2022-Q3100.7provisional19 August 2026
2022-Q2126.2provisional19 August 2026
2022-Q192.6provisional19 August 2026
2021-Q490.5provisional19 August 2026
2021-Q399.3provisional19 August 2026
2021-Q2127.0provisional19 August 2026
2021-Q194.6provisional19 August 2026
2020-Q493.4provisional19 August 2026
2020-Q394.8provisional19 August 2026
2020-Q2122.8provisional19 August 2026
2020-Q189.0provisional19 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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