{"id":860689,"date":"2026-08-19T10:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/860689\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T10:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:14:09","slug":"wages-growth-leaves-corporate-australia-concerned-about-labour-costs-despite-rba-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/860689\/","title":{"rendered":"Wages growth leaves corporate Australia concerned about labour costs despite RBA targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t worry about 3.2 per cent annual wages growth, the economists said. It\u2019s in line with the Reserve Bank of Australia\u2019s expectations and all good.<\/p>\n<p>Really? Because Australia\u2019s full-year reporting season is showing the opposite. Our big companies and employers are very worried about wages growth \u2013 even if is at that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/policy\/economy\/private-sector-wage-growth-drops-to-near-four-year-low-20260819-p60pl4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">supposedly OK 3.2 per cent<\/a> \u2013 and automating work to come up with the \u201cproductivity savings\u201d required to pay their humans more.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t worry about 3.2 per cent annual wages growth, the economists said. It\u2019s in line with the Reserve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":860690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-860689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860689","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=860689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}