The manufacturing, transport, and logistics sector drove the country’s wage growth with 3.2%, according to the findings. This was followed by the retail, hospitality, and tourism sector, which saw a 3.1% increase.<\/p>\n
Wage growth in the science and technology sector was relatively flat at 0.2% year-on-year. Declines were recorded in:<\/p>\n
\n\tAgriculture, energy, and mining (0.6%)
\n\tHealthcare and community services (5.5%)
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Skilled workers demand drives wages<\/p>\n
By age group, wage growth was also uneven among brackets, with older employees seeing better gains.<\/p>\n
“The situation is particularly stark for the 25\u201334 age group, where year-on-year wage growth is -1.1%,” Webster said.<\/p>\n
People between 45 and 54 years old saw their wages grow by an average of 2.3% year-on-year amid strong demand for experienced employees, according to the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The manufacturing, transport, and logistics sector drove the country’s wage growth with 3.2%, according to the findings. This…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41878,1144,111,43,139,69,3454],"class_list":["post-356140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-employment-growth","tag-human-resources","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-wage-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}