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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Peter Hannam

Real wages to fall by 3% this year as inflation surges, says RBA

The Reserve Bank of Australia
The Reserve Bank of Australia predicts that real wages will fall this year as cost of living pressures increase. Photograph: Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock

Australians’ real wages are set to shrink as much as 3% in 2022 as salary increases lag behind inflation and may only start to catch up by 2024, the Reserve Bank has said.

In its quarterly statement on monetary policy, released on Friday, the nation’s central bank raised its expectations for price increases while trimming some GDP growth forecasts.

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