% change (year-ended) - Source frequency: quarterly · Methodology · Corrections
Australia's wage price index growth was 3.2% as of April 2026. Growth in the ABS Wage Price Index: the change in hourly rates of pay for a fixed basket of jobs, year-ended. A clean read on what wages are doing, unaffected by shifts in the mix of jobs. Nominal wage growth is the base of real wages. Compared with inflation, it shows whether pay is keeping up with the cost of living. Data is sourced from ABS Wage Price Index (Cat. 6345.0) - total hourly rates of pay excluding bonuses, all industries, Australia and updated quarterly.
Growth in the ABS Wage Price Index: the change in hourly rates of pay for a fixed basket of jobs, year-ended. A clean read on what wages are doing, unaffected by shifts in the mix of jobs.
Nominal wage growth is the base of real wages. Compared with inflation, it shows whether pay is keeping up with the cost of living.
Higher is better
Source: ABS Wage Price Index (Cat. 6345.0) - total hourly rates of pay excluding bonuses, all industries, Australia
This data is sourced programmatically from official statistical APIs and data feeds (ABS Wage Price Index (Cat. 6345.0) - total hourly rates of pay excluding bonuses, all industries, Australia), updated quarterly. Our pipeline fetches the machine-readable version automatically and converts it to the standardised format shown here.
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