Different growth rates in labour costs caused the narrowing of the gap between labour groups; the labour costs for employees with basic education or less and upper secondary education increased on average in 2014 in comparison to 2013 by 2.6% (basic education or less) and 1.5% (upper secondary education), while for the tertiary educated they decreased by 0.6%.
Razlike v stroških dela med zaposlenimi z različno izobrazbo so nastale zaradi različne dinamike rasti stroškov dela; za osnovnošolsko in srednješolsko izobražene zaposlene so se ti v letu 2014 glede na leto 2013 v povprečju zvišali za 2,6% (osnovnošolska izobrazba) oz. za 1,5% (srednješolska izobrazba), medtem ko so se za višje- in visokošolsko izobražene znižali za 0,6%.