Wages grew at 3.4 per cent in the three months to September 30, in line with economist forecasts. Photo: Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS

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

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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

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