{"id":513431,"date":"2026-07-07T03:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/513431\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T03:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:31:08","slug":"japans-nominal-wages-top-3-again-in-longest-streak-since-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/513431\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s nominal wages top 3% again in longest streak since 1992"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese wages climbed again in May, comfortably outpacing inflation and reinforcing the Bank of Japan\u2019s stance toward raising interest rates.<\/p>\n<p>Nominal wages rose 3.2% in May from a year earlier after a revised 3.6% advance in April, the labor ministry reported Tuesday. The figure was weaker than economists\u2019 estimate but marked a fourth straight month of wage growth of at least 3%, the longest streak since 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Base pay increased 3%, while a more stable measure \u2014 which excludes bonuses and overtime and is less affected by sampling distortions \u2014 rose 2.4% for full-time workers. When adjusted for inflation, cash earnings climbed 1.4% \u2014 the fifth straight month of gains, the longest stretch since 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japanese wages climbed again in May, comfortably outpacing inflation and reinforcing the Bank of Japan\u2019s stance toward raising&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[30379,138,13826,8891,219,23122,111,139,69,33281],"class_list":["post-513431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-boj","tag-business","tag-consumer-spending","tag-economic-indicators","tag-economy","tag-japanese-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-wages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513431","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=513431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}