Australia’s five years of wage falls

Thursday, 23 May 2019

MB has gone to great lengths to expose the crash in real employee incomes that has taken place this decade, as evident by the circa 5% fall in real average employee compensation since March 2012:

And the 0.3% real decline in per capita household disposable income since June 2012:

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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.