A list with labour costs, published recently by the economics weekly Talouselämä (issue 20/2013), comprises figures from the hundred largest employers (not including public sector employers). Number one on the list, the minerals and metals processing company Outotec, last year paid out €81,373 per employee in direct and indirect labour costs. The other end of the list comprises retailers and companies that offer property maintenance services, such as cleaning. The lowest labour costs per employee were for the property services companies Contineo (€24,823) and Solemo (€25,612). Also the globally operating service providers ISS and Sodexo and the German retailer Lidl’s Finnish subsidiary Lidl Suomi are to be found among the bottom-10 companies with their less than €30,000 per employee labour costs.
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