Wages have grown by 3.4 per cent in the year to September, in line with economist and Reserve Bank expectations.

While there was no change in the annual wage price index from the previous quarter, an intervening surge in inflation has eroded the improvement to workers' incomes in real terms.

Real wages continued to grow for an eighth straight quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics report on Wednesday.

But after an inflation-adjusted increase of 1.3 per cent in the June quarter, real wages growth shrank to 0.2 per cent in September as a result of inflation rising to 3.2 per cent.

As expected by the forecasting consensus, wages grew 0.8 per cent in the three months to September 30.

"Annual wage growth remained steady compared to the June quarter 2025 but was slightly lower than th

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