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The ABS has released its Feb quarter Average Weekly Earnings (AWOTE) report today and it shows ongoing solid wage rises across the nation. Better than the market was forecasting too with QoQ growth of 1.1% versus expectations of 1% and YoY growth of 4.4% versus 4.1% expected.

Here’s the long term chart:

That’s still very respectable wage growth and not suggestive at all of a struggling labour market, so this is one for the bulls.

Indeed, the release also contradicted yesterday’s Labour Price release, given it showed WA eased and everywhere else did just fine:

Yesterday’s mining boom was delivering for all.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.