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Pay awards drop further behind inflation

The median pay award has risen to 3.5% in the three months to the end of July, but the gap between pay settlements and retail prices index inflation has widened to 1.5 percentage points.

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Table 1: Private sector pay awards, July 2007 to July 2008
Chart 1: Pay review pattern, July 2007 to July 2008
Table 2: Whole-economy pay awards, July 2007 to July 2008
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