In the last year, the bureau says that figure has risen by 3.5 per cent, but it’s not all good news, those figures are a sharp dip on the six per cent growth recorded in the previous 12 months.
In the private sector, ordinary earnings were up 0.5 per cent for the quarter and three per cent over the year, with average weekly earnings hitting $1,012.
In the public sector, average ordinary earnings were up 1.1 per cent in the quarter and 5.6 per cent over the year to reach $1,154 a week.
In original terms, the sharpest increases over the past year was recorded in the retail trade (8.8 per cent), followed by accommodation, cafes and restaurants (6.8 per cent) and mining (6.4 per cent).
The mining industry has another record - average weekly earnings in that sector, at $1,682, remains by far the highest average wage of any industry.