{
  "id": 926458,
  "title": "U.S. wage growth roars for the every man as Australia falls behind",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/u-s-wage-growth-roars-for-the-every-man-as-australia-falls-behind",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-13T22:00:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MacroBusiness",
    "slug": "macrobusiness",
    "url": "https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2026/08/u-s-wage-growth-roars-for-the-every-man-as-australia-falls-behind/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "When the latest Australian wages data was released, it revealed yet another quarter of falls in real terms. Overall, since peaking in the June quarter of 2020, real wages have lost 7.8 percentage points of the 17.1% growth seen in real wages since the inception of the ABS Wage Price Index in 1997, with 16 The post U.S. wage growth roars for the every man as Australia falls behind appeared first…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}