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Health sector staff

These staff at Dunedin Hospital’s emergency department are having a frantic day. The wages bill is the costliest input for many service sector industries, especially health. Taking the service sector as a whole, the biggest share of the wage bill goes to health services.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 25 March 2008, p. 24

by Craig Baxter

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Ganesh Nana, Industrial sectors – Tertiary sector, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23160/health-sector-staff (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ganesh Nana, published 7 December 2009.