{"id":455473,"date":"2026-02-03T10:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/455473\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T10:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:12:15","slug":"job-ads-surge-locks-in-rate-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/455473\/","title":{"rendered":"Job ads surge locks in rate hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANZ job ads are in their strongest surge in three years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1-2.png\" width=\"907\" height=\"572\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Labour demand often rises at the beginning of the year (the job advertisements series grew 6.2% m\/m in January 2019 and 3.9% m\/m in January 2017).<\/p>\n<p>The increase in January comes after the unemployment rate dropped to 4.1% and employment increased by 65.2k in December.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Overall, though, the labour market is still pretty sloppy.<\/p>\n<p>While employment and hours worked have grown by about 1% annually, the unemployment rate concluded the year where it began.<\/p>\n<p>Wage growth also appears to have rolled over.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/CBA-wage-tracker-1.png\" width=\"577\" height=\"660\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Wage growth\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Still, it\u2019s another incremental sign that the RBA will interpret as inflationary in the medium term.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>A hike is incoming, I suspect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANZ job ads are in their strongest surge in three years. Labour demand often rises at the beginning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-455473","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\/455473","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=455473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}