huntleys report, page-5

LABOUR COSTS

Wages and salaries paid by the waste collection, treatment and disposal services industry amounted to $1.3b in 2006-07, or 86% of its total labour costs. At $52,800, the industry’s selected labour costs per person employed at the end of June 2007 were the lowest for any industry for which data are presented in this publication.

this must be good for the profits

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