{"id":747739,"date":"2026-07-07T03:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/747739\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T03:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:50:09","slug":"japans-nominal-wages-top-3-again-in-longest-streak-since-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/747739\/","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":747740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28168,28,16306,8876,101,28167,14444],"class_list":["post-747739","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-wages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}