Overall staff have been effective in keeping a lid on that".
Given an overall staff shortage, hospitals say their labor costs are rising.
Women, meanwhile, made up three quarters of the overall staff population.
However, the company highlighted major cost-savings in the business, including to overall staff levels, for driving profitability.
The Times-Picayune laid off more than 200 people, or nearly a third of its overall staff.
Why did Salford Royal NHS foundation trust score more highly for overall staff engagement than any other acute trust in the 2013 NHS staff survey?
Overall staff numbers rose 1.7%, or by 309 jobs to 18,974, despite a 10-year cost-cutting programming set to deliver cumulative savings of £1.6bn.
"It's not an unachievable goal; the cost of bringing up staff pay to the living wage is low compared to the overall staff spend".
There was an improvement in representation of ethnic minority groups to 12.9% in the last financial year, in line with the national average of 12% and despite a 1% drop in overall staff numbers.
He said he was not old enough to take advantage of the early retirement offer, but "we will lose more than 10percentt of our overall staff -- about 30 people -- including assistant district attorneys, investigators and secretaries.
