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  "id": "economy/staff-costs",
  "name": "Sales per rupee of staff cost",
  "hub": "Economy",
  "topic": "Jobs and businesses",
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  "period": "2026-27 Q1",
  "periodKey": "2026-27 Q1",
  "latest": {
    "formattedValue": "₹18.18 of manufacturing sales per ₹1 of staff cost",
    "supportingFigures": "Manufacturing companies. IT and other services retain their separately reported ratios in the table."
  },
  "source": {
    "name": "Reserve Bank of India",
    "url": "https://www.rbi.org.in/"
  },
  "numericValue": 18.181818181818183,
  "unit": "sales per rupee of staff cost",
  "measure": "100 / manufacturing_percent",
  "cadence": "Quarterly",
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  "dateModified": "2026-10-05T05:33:24.257Z",
  "coverage": "2024-04/2026-06",
  "notes": [
    "The table retains the source’s published periods. Missing observations are not zero and have not been interpolated.",
    "The table reports staff costs as a share of sales. Sales per rupee of staff cost is the reciprocal; a missing sector ratio is not estimated.",
    "Quarterly staff cost as a share of sales among listed non-government non-financial companies. A sector is left blank when the RBI release gives only a direction and no exact ratio."
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    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "scope": "India Dispatch's original compiled tables and editorial text"
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  "attribution": "India by the numbers, Sales per rupee of staff cost, 2026-27 Q1, https://data.indiadispatch.com/economy/sales-to-staff-costs. Source: Reserve Bank of India.",
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        "Manufacturing",
        "It services",
        "Non it services"
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          "id": "2024-25 Q1",
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            "10.9%"
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            "2024-25 Q3",
            "5.7%",
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            "10.3%"
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          "id": "2024-25 Q4",
          "cells": [
            "2024-25 Q4",
            "5.5%",
            "48%",
            "10.1%"
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        },
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          "id": "2025-26 Q1",
          "cells": [
            "2025-26 Q1",
            "5.9%",
            "48.8%",
            "10.6%"
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          "id": "2025-26 Q2",
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            "2025-26 Q2",
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            "5.8%",
            "Not reported",
            "Not reported"
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          "id": "2025-26 Q4",
          "cells": [
            "2025-26 Q4",
            "5.3%",
            "Not reported",
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          "id": "2026-27 Q1",
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            "5.5%",
            "Not reported",
            "10.1%"
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      "source": {
        "name": "Reserve Bank of India",
        "url": "https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/Pr_DataRelease.aspx?SectionID=360&DateFilter=Year"
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