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Wages growth

September 2024

  • Composite image showing a teacher, doctor and business person

    The Crunch
    How much does an Australian CEO really earn and what should they get? Take our quiz – and have your say

    Do you know how much the CEOs of top companies get paid in comparison with other occupations? Test your knowledge, tell us how much you think different jobs should earn and compare results with other Guardian readers

August 2024

  • John Quiggin

    Australians should be angry about Coles’ latest billion-dollar profit. But don’t blame the cost of living

    John Quiggin
    Politicians will declare war on ‘cost of living’ and pundits will argue about inflation. The real point is the profits come at workers’ expenses
  • Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michele Bullock

    Australia’s productivity riddle – and what it might mean for interest rates

    Michele Bullock keeps telling us productivity is flatlining. How it changes may well determine if the Reserve Bank will tolerate wage rises beyond 3%

    • Grogonomics
      The RBA and its critics claim Australia’s economy needs to be slowed down. But the data shows both are wrong

      Greg Jericho

    • Public sector wages increase at second fastest pace in 14 years, ABS data shows

    • Early childhood education workers to receive 15% pay rise – if centres limit fee increases

July 2024

  • Greg Jericho

    Grogonomics
    Australian workers’ living standards have been destroyed – and there is little good news ahead

    Greg Jericho
  • Stock photograph of Australian dollars

    Inequality reporting
    How much of a ‘fair go’ do Australians really have to escape poverty?

June 2024

  • A waiter sets up a table at a restaurant

    Minimum wage workers in Australia to get a 3.75% pay rise over the next 12 months

    Fair Work Commission lifts minimum wage to $24.10 an hour from July, with the rise outpacing the government’s forecast inflation rate

May 2024

  • Greg Jericho

    Grogonomics
    Australians have lost 14 years of progress on living standards. A wages breakout? Please. If only

    Greg Jericho
  • The Australian Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, at Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday.

    Budget sneak peek predicts higher wages and tax breaks – but no increase for Australians on jobseeker

April 2024

  • Greg Jericho

    Grogonomics
    Talk of interest rate cuts soon is optimistic – here’s why the RBA may decide doing nothing is safer

    Greg Jericho
  • Andrew Leigh

    From dance instructors to boilermakers: Labor says non-compete clauses are holding back wages

  • Malarndirri McCarthy

    Australia news live
    Youth curfew ‘not the long-term solution’, MP says – as it happened

  • Matt Comyn, Innes Willox and Andrew McKellar

    Business wants pay rises for Australia’s lowest paid workers limited to 2% – but what about executives?

March 2024

  • Greg Jericho

    Grogonomics
    The push against wage rises has begun again – it’s an argument for Australia’s poorest workers to become poorer

    Greg Jericho
    A 5% rise in award and minimum wages is pretty modest and won’t set fire to inflation or cause interest rates to stay high
  • Catherine King answers a dixer during question time at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday.

    Australia news live
    King takes aim at Liberals over preselection of women – as it happened

    This blog is now closed.
  • Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock will speak to the media an hour after the board’s interest rate decision is released

    Reserve Bank tipped to hold interest rate but economists split on when cuts will start

    Pundits and investors expect the RBA to leave its cash rate unchanged at 4.35% when the board meets on Tuesday

February 2024

  • File photo of office workers and shoppers walking through Sydney's central business district

    Australian workers’ productivity drops 3.7% as employment surges and investment slows

  • Greg Jericho

    Grogonomics
    Wages are finally on the way up, but there’s a long way to go before workers feel relief

    Greg Jericho
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