Stephen Koukoulas
speaker
2,355 appearances
24 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Sep
Stephen Koukoulas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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your output costs and your selling prices and your wage costs, your labor costs.
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So it it's a nice little summary of what the business sector's seeing about growth, investment, employment, and price.
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Brackets inflation risks to the economy.
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I like the survey very much.
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Does the RBA look at that too?
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They do, yes.
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And while it doesn't I think the business survey doesn't come out till Wednesday, I suspect they might get a sneak copy from the from the people who compile it at the map.
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That's just a guess.
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I don't know whether that's right or not.
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I I stand corrected with the money.
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Average the the average of the workforce.
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Yeah, but the wage price index sort of tries to compare what's happening to wages for a for a consistent job.
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The average weekly earnings take account of the fact if I got a promotion and I got a 5% pay rise, or I got a 5% bonus because I'm doing such a wonderful job, it covers the cash earnings.
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Or if I'm working longer hours, or I'm working overtime, or I'm working less overtime.
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So it's the dollars and cents that are actually paid.
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So arguably it's a better indicator than the wage price index of how.
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uh the health of the consumer side is
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But it's not as pure as the wage price index, which comes out next week, which looks at the like for like type jobs and what's happening to wage pressures there.
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Yeah, the trend has been pretty flat.
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Yeah, wages growth are not that problem that some people feared about the wage price spiral.
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