Employee labour costs as a share of total expenses, heavy and civil engineering construction, Australia 2024-25

What it is. 21.3% of the industry's total expenses: total labour costs of its own employees.

Sample. ABS annual industry accounts for ANZSIC subdivision 31 Heavy and civil engineering construction, which includes road and bridge construction and other heavy and civil work. Employment 165,900 at June 2025.

What it is not. Context only: a share of an industry's books, not of a contract and not a loss. It counts only the industry's own employees: labour bought from subcontractors or labour hire firms is not in labour costs, so the share probably understates the cost that hours drive on a job. It says nothing about hours over need.

Our arithmetic. Total labour costs A$26,308m divided by total expenses A$123,216m, both for 31 Heavy and civil engineering construction in 2024-25 (Data1 sheet, 30 June 2025 row) = 0.2135. Against total income of A$132,471m it is 0.1986.

Where it came from

• Australian Bureau of Statistics (2025), Australian Industry, 2024-25: Division E Construction, subdivision 31 Heavy and civil engineering construction
  Data1 sheet, row for 30 June 2025, the 31 Heavy and civil engineering construction columns: Total labour costs, Total expenses, Total income, Purchases of goods and materials · source record

Considered and set aside

• Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE): Filed as its own context figure; a survey of road works that counts labour at 31.79% of road construction cost, higher than this share; the two are not the same base (road works against the whole industry's books).

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