The yawning gulf between wages and profits

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By Leith van Onselen

Monday’s June quarter Business Indicators release from the ABS, which feeds into the national accounts, confirmed that wages & salaries remain wildly divergent from business profits.

As shown in the next chart, real business gross operating profits have boomed over the past year:

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.