{"id":419692,"date":"2026-05-09T16:11:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/419692\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T16:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T16:11:33","slug":"japans-real-wages-rise-for-third-month-to-keep-boj-on-hike-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/419692\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s real wages rise for third month to keep BOJ on hike path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese workers\u2019 real wages rose in March for a third consecutive month, supporting the Bank of Japan\u2019s case for further interest rate hikes even as the Middle East conflict clouds the economic outlook.<\/p>\n<p>Inflation-adjusted wages increased 1% from a year earlier, slowing from a revised 2% gain in February, the labor ministry reported Friday. While the result fell short of economists\u2019 forecast of 1.8% growth, it marked the first time since 2021 that real wages climbed for three straight months.<\/p>\n<p>Nominal wages grew 2.7%, also shy of consensus. Base pay rose 3.2%, while a similar measure that avoids sampling issues and is monitored by BOJ officials increased 2.6% for full-time workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japanese workers\u2019 real wages rose in March for a third consecutive month, supporting the Bank of Japan\u2019s case&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[30379,138,8891,219,1943,23122,232,5107,111,139,69,33281],"class_list":["post-419692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-boj","tag-business","tag-economic-indicators","tag-economy","tag-inflation","tag-japanese-economy","tag-jobs","tag-middle-east","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-wages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419692","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=419692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}