Wage growth still below inflation

Wage growth still below inflation

Many low-income and unskilled workers in the agriculture, industrial and service sectors of Bangladesh are being forced to reduce consumption as higher inflationary pressure is eating away their real income.
According to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), inflation has outpaced wage growth in the country for more than two and a half years now.
The wages of low-income and unskilled workers across 63 employment categories grew by an average of 8.01 percent in September while the inflation rate was 9.92 percent, shows the Wage Rate Index of the BBS.