Note 26 - Employees

Employee costs

$ million

 

2017

2016[A]

2015

[A]

In addition, there were redundancy costs of $1,441 million.

Remuneration

10,855

11,985

12,558

Social security contributions

844

867

830

Retirement benefits (see Note 17)

1,815

2,181

2,984

Share-based compensation (see Note 21)

802

693

750

Total

14,316

15,726

17,122

Average employee numbers

Thousand

 

2017

2016

2015

[A]

Includes all employees working in business service centres irrespective of the segment they support.

Integrated Gas

11

13

13

Upstream

18

22

22

Downstream

40

40

43

Corporate [A]

17

17

15

Total

86

92

93