Australia Yearbook - 2001

Chapter 21—Service industries 759
21.14 COMPUTING SERVICES INDUSTRY
Percentage
growth from
1995–96 to
1998–99
Annualised
percentage
growth from
1995–96 to
1998–99
1992–93 1995–96 1998–99
no. no. no. % %
Businesses at 30 June 4 894 9 679 14 731 52.2 15.0
persons persons persons % %
Employment at 30 June 30 056 55 046 74 395 35.2 10.6
$m $m $m % %
Income
Income from the provision of computer services and
the sale and licensing of packaged software 3 251.2 6 504.7 9 409.2 44.7 13.1
Income from the provision of telecommunications
services 95.5 147.9 312.3 111.2 28.3
Income from the sale of computer and
communication hardware, parts and consumables 488.8 1 047.8 525.1 –49.9 –20.6
Other income 264.7 387.9 227.4 –41.4 –16.3
Total 4 100.2 8 088.3 10 474.0 29.5 9.0
Expenses
Labour costs 1 293.6 2 726.8 4 065.0 49.1 14.2
Payments to contractors and consultants for
computing and communications services 294.6 892.0 1 396.4 56.5 16.1
Other expenses 2 160.9 4 022.7 4 193.0 4.2 1.4
Total 3 749.1 7 641.5 9 654.4 26.3 8.1
Operating profit before tax 364.9 455.1 835.6 83.6 22.5
% % %
Operating profit margin 9.5 5.7 8.2 . . . .
Source: Computing Services Industry, Australia, 1998–99 (8669.0).
21.15 CONSULTANT ENGINEERING SERVICES
INDUSTRY
1992–93 1995–96 Increase
no. no. %
Businesses at 30 June 5,454 5,514 1.1
persons persons %
Employment at 30 June
Full-time 23,244 25,384 9.2
Part-time 4,964 5,352 7.8
Total 28,208 30,736 9.0
Contract and agency
staff 3,954 8,212 107.7
$m $m %
Total income 2,358 3,233 37.1
Expenses
Labour costs 971 1,242 27.9
Payments to contract
and agency staff 449 499 11.1
Other expenses 782 996 27.3
Total 2,202 2,736 24.3
Operating profit before
tax 156 351 125.4
% %
Operating profit margin 6.7 11.0 . .
Legal services
At the end of June 1999 there were
11,026 organisations involved in the legal
services industry. The large majority (98%) of
these organisations were either solicitor practices
(7,115 organisations) or barrister practices
(3,704 organisations). The remaining
organisations comprised 39 patent attorney
businesses, nine government solicitors, eight
legal aid authorities and 152 community legal
centres.
The 7,115 solicitor practices (table 21.16)
operating at 30 June 1999 represented an
increase of 11% on the 6,403 practices operating
at 30 June 1996. Employment within solicitor
practices increased by 10% over the same period,
with 67,278 persons employed at the end of
June 1999. There were 25,044 qualified solicitors
and barristers working in solicitor practices at
30 June 1999. Other persons working for solicitor
practices were para legals (6,383 persons),
articled clerks (1,894 persons) and other staff
(33,957 persons). On average there were
1.7 other staff for every qualified solicitor.