Like wages, average weekly earnings fail to launch

Advertisement

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released average weekly earnings (AWE) data for the November quarter, which like yesterday’s wage price index (WPI) is running at around half the pace of inflation.

The below table summarises the results:

Average weekly earnings changes

And below is the time-series chart:

AWE time series

The full text of this article is available to MacroBusiness subscribers

$1 for your first month, then:
Cancel at any time through our billing provider, Stripe
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.
Advertisement