UK GAAP Parent Company Financial Statements: Note 15
For the Year Ended 31 December 2007
15. Staff Costs
The average monthly number of persons employed by the Company (including Directors) during the year was 82 (2006: 75).
Their aggregate remuneration comprised:
| 2007 £'000 |
2006 £'000 |
|
|---|---|---|
| Wages and salaries | 15,653 | 11,560 |
| Social security costs | 1,198 | 1,108 |
| Pension costs | 448 | 645 |
| Redundancy costs | 395 | 825 |
| 17,694 | 14,138 |
The remuneration of Directors is set out below. Further information about the remuneration of individual Directors is provided in the audited part of the Directors' Remuneration Report in the Group financial statements.
| 2007 £'000 |
2006 £'000 |
|
|---|---|---|
| Short-term employee benefits | 3,238 | 3,080 |
| Post-employment benefits | 336 | 321 |
| Long-term employee benefits | 58 | 69 |
| Termination benefits | 511 | - |
| 4,143 | 3,470 |