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Annual wages rise in March




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Annual wages rise in March

Australia’s annual wage progress reached 4.1% within the March quarter, demonstrating a persistent rise amid fluctuating financial circumstances, in line with the newest Wage Value Index (WPI) from ABS.

The WPI rose by 0.8% within the first quarter of 2024, culminating in a 4.1% enhance over the previous 12 months, in seasonally adjusted phrases.

Michelle Marquardt (pictured above), ABS head of costs statistics, highlighted the importance of the present wage tendencies.

“The WPI annual all sectors wage progress has remained at or above 4% since September quarter 2023,” Marquardt mentioned in a media launch. “The final time wages progress was at this stage for 3 consecutive quarters was March quarter 2009.”

She additionally famous the particular impacts on public sector wages, which included scheduled rises from new agreements made final 12 months, contributing to the present figures.

Wage progress within the non-public, public sectors

Public-sector annual wage progress reached 3.8%, down from 4.3% in December 2023 however up from 3% final 12 months. This quarter, wages rose by 0.8%, the smallest quarterly enhance since December 2022.

Personal sector wages grew sooner at 0.8%, in comparison with 0.5% within the public sector, marking the smallest rise since March 2022’s 0.7%.

“The general public sector wage enhance was the smallest since March quarter 2022 when it was additionally 0.5%,” Marquardt mentioned. “Final 12 months’s March quarter consequence for the general public sector mirrored the implementation of recent enterprise agreements and modifications to wage caps.

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