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Employment costs and provisions | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2024
Disclosure Of Employee Cost And Provisions Explanatory [Abstract] |
Employment costs and provisions | 26 Employment costs and provisions
| Note | 2024 US$m | 2023 US$m | 2022 US$m
Total employment costs |  |  |  |
– Wages and salaries |  | 6,004 | 5,625 | 5,115
– Social security costs |  | 461 | 470 | 425
– Net post-retirement charge | 28 | 605 | 449 | 559
– Share-based payment charge | 27 | 172 | 144 | 122
|  | 7,242 | 6,688 | 6,221
Less: charged within movement in provisions (see below) |  | (187) | (52) | (219)
Total employment costs | 7 | 7,055 | 6,636 | 6,002
| 2024 | 2023
Employment provisions | Pensions and post-retirement healthcare(a) US$m | Other employee entitlements(b) US$m | Total US$m | Total US$m
At 1 January | 1,189 | 369 | 1,558 | 1,658
Adjustment on currency translation | (48) | (35) | (83) | 32
Charged/(credited) to profit: |  |  |  |
–increases to existing and new provisions | 91 | 108 | 199 | 78
–unused amounts reversed | – | (12) | (12) | (26)
Utilised in year | (75) | (58) | (133) | (277)
Remeasurement (gains)/losses recognised in other comprehensive income | (94) | – | (94) | 102
Transfers and other movements | – | 21 | 21 | (9)
At 31 December | 1,063 | 393 | 1,456 | 1,558
Balance sheet analysis: |  |  |  |
Current | 68 | 291 | 359 | 361
Non-current | 995 | 102 | 1,097 | 1,197
Total employment provisions | 1,063 | 393 | 1,456 | 1,558
(a)The main assumptions used to determine the provision for pensions and post-retirement healthcare, and other information, including the expected level of future funding payments in respect of those arrangements, are given in note 28. (b)The provision for other employee entitlements includes a provision for long service leave of US$313 million (2023: US$296 million), based on the relevant entitlements in certain Group operations, and includes US$24 million (2023: US$17 million) of provision for redundancy and severance payments.

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