The wage price index rose 3.9 per cent from a year earlier, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said on Wednesday.
The median market forecast was for a rise of 0.9 per cent in the December quarter and 3.8 per cent from a year earlier.
In the September quarter, the index rose by an unrevised 1.1 per cent.
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The index measures movement in underlying wages by calculating the change in the wage and salary cost of a basket of jobs.
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