Labour Market Statistics (Income): June 2022 quarter

Annual revisions

Each year we update estimates from the previous three years. This is due to the Household Labour Force Survey's (HLFS) implementation of quarterly revisions to HLFS content due to regular updates to working age population estimates.

New Sample

Following every census, we review the HLFS sample design. The updated sample design will be implemented over eight quarters (two years), starting in the December 2020 quarter. For the June 2022 quarter, seven eighths of the households are from the new sample

External data influencers

We collected data in this release in the June 2022 quarter (April to June).

Changes in income may be influenced by one-off events. Events that could have influenced the June 2022 quarter data include:

• the rise in the adult minimum wage from $20.00 to $21.20 (effective from 1 April 2022)
• general annual adjustments to benefits and New Zealand Superannuation rates (effective from 1 April 2022)

Response Rate

As the Labour Market Statistics (Income) content is collected as part of the Household Labour Force Survey (HLFS), the same target response rate and target achieved sample rate apply.

The target response rate for the HLFS is 90 percent and target achieved sample rate is 76 percent. The response rate for the June 2022 quarter was 76.6 percent and the achieved sample rate was 69.3 percent.

Sampling errors

The table below summarises the main relative sampling errors for the June 2021 and June 2022 quarters, by income source.

The sampling error and relative sampling error for the gender pay gap in the June 2022 quarter are 1.3 percent and 14.2 percent, respectively.