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Employee-related expenditure | 12 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2018
Employee-related expenditure |
Employee-related expenditure | 4 Employee-related expenditure
|  |  |  | 2018 |  | 2017 |  | 2016 |
for the year ended 30 June |  | Note |  | Rm |  | Rm |  | Rm |
Analysis of employee costs |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Labour |  |  |  | 28 448 |  | 26 646 |  | 25 878 |
salaries, wages and other employee-related expenditure |  |  |  | 26 388 |  | 24 814 |  | 23 996 |
post-employment benefits |  |  |  | 2 060 |  | 1 832 |  | 1 882 |
Share-based payment expenses |  |  |  | 1 565 |  | 226 |  | 494 |
equity-settled |  | 35 |  | 910 |  | 463 |  | 123 |
cash-settled |  | 34 |  | 655 |  | (237 | ) | 371 |
Total employee-related expenditure |  |  |  | 30 013 |  | 26 872 |  | 26 372 |
Costs capitalised to projects |  |  |  | (2 545 | ) | (2 455 | ) | (2 461 | )
Per income statement |  |  |  | 27 468 |  | 24 417 |  | 23 911 |
The total number of permanent and non-permanent employees, in approved positions, including the group’s share of employees within joint operation entities and excluding contractors, joint ventures’ and associates’ employees, is analysed below:
|  | 2018 |  | 2017 |  | 2016 |
for the year ended 30 June |  | Number |  | Number |  | Number |
Permanent employees |  | 31 020 |  | 30 600 |  | 29 726 |
Non-permanent employees |  | 250 |  | 300 |  | 374 |
|  | 31 270 |  | 30 900 |  | 30 100 |
The number of employees by area of employment is analysed as follows:
|  | 2018 |  | 2017 |  | 2016 |
for the year ended 30 June |  | Number |  | Number |  | Number |
Business segmentation |  |  |  |  |  |  |
 Mining |  | 7 471 |  | 7 483 |  | 7 263 |
 Exploration and Production International |  | 430 |  | 416 |  | 413 |
 Energy |  | 5 069 |  | 5 008 |  | 4 820 |
 Base Chemicals |  | 6 723 |  | 6 430 |  | 6 145 |
 Performance Chemicals |  | 6 601 |  | 6 443 |  | 6 342 |
 Group Functions |  | 4 976 |  | 5 120 |  | 5 117 |
Total operations |  | 31 270 |  | 30 900 |  | 30 100 |
Accounting policies: Remuneration of employees is charged to the income statement, except where it is capitalised to projects in line with the accounting policy for assets under construction. Short-term employee benefits Short-term employee benefits includes salaries, wages and costs of temporary employees, paid vacation leave, sick leave and incentive bonuses. Long-term employee benefits Long-term employee benefits are those benefits that are expected to be wholly settled more than 12 months after the end of the annual reporting period, in which the services have been rendered and are discounted to their present value. Post-retirement benefits Further information on these benefits is provided in Note 33, and include defined benefit contribution plans, as well as defined benefit plans.

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