{"id":295612,"date":"2025-11-19T21:16:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295612\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T21:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:16:19","slug":"aussie-real-wages-smashed-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295612\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie real wages smashed lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released the wage price index for the September quarter of 2025, which reported a quarterly increase of 0.8% and an annual increase of 3.4%:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Australian-wage-growth.png\" width=\"637\" height=\"460\" alt=\"Australian wage growth\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As illustrated below by Justin Fabo from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.antipodeanmacro.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Antipodean Macro<\/a>, the outcome aligned with the Reserve Bank of Australia\u2019s (RBA) and market expectations, posing no significant policy implications.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Wage-growth-vs-RBA.png\" width=\"660\" height=\"569\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Wage growth vs RBA\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The following chart shows that public sector wages (3.8%) are growing significantly faster than the private sector (3.2%), indicative of the strong growth in public spending and the soft private sector demand.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Wage-growth-by-sector.png\" width=\"623\" height=\"472\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Wage growth by sector\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released the wage price index for the September quarter of 2025,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-295612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}