Different growth rates in labour costs caused the narrowing of the gap between labour groups; compared to 2016 the labour costs for employees with basic education or less increased on average by 2.7% and for employees with upper secondary education by 4.3%, while for the tertiary educated they increased by only 1.2%.
Na spremembe razlik v stroških dela je vplivala različna dinamika rasti stroškov dela; za osnovnošolsko in srednješolsko izobražene zaposlene so se ti v letu 2017 glede na leto 2016 v povprečju zvišali za 2,7 % (osnovnošolska izobrazba) oz. za 4,3 % (srednješolska izobrazba), medtem ko so se za višje- in visokošolsko izobražene zvišali le za 1,2 %.