Real wages have grown – just – over the past year. But they’re still down near 2011 levels
- Written by Janine Dixon, Director, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
New data show wages have risen by a bit more than inflation, but overall real wages are still languishing near 2011 levels.
Over the year to September, wages rose 3.4% in seasonally adjusted terms. That’s according to the latest wage price index data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), released on Wednesday.
That’s slightly...
