"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 3 (July to Sept) 2016","" "","" "Notes","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." "Unit","Percentage points" "","" "","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","1.10","-0.40","1.50" "Q2 2016","2.20","-0.20","2.40" "Q3 2016","2.30","-0.40","2.70"