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Notes to the company accounts

1 Employees

	Year ended 31 July 2008 £m	Period ended 31 July 2007 £m
Staff costs during the period
Wages and salaries	70.1	148.3
Social security	8.1	14.7
Cost of share-based incentive plans	8.5	7.2
Pension costs (note 8)	7.6	21.6
	94.3	191.8

For details of Smiths Group plc’s employee share option schemes and other share-based plans refer to note 31 relating to the Group accounts.

The average number of persons employed during the period was 1,736 (2007: 6,555).

Smiths Group divisions:
Smiths Detection, Smiths Medical, John Crane, Smiths Interconnect, Flex-Tek