New wage growth figures are likely to show why Australians are enthusiastically supporting the Turnbull government's personal income tax cuts, even if it is only $10 a week for the average earner.
The wage price index - the Reserve Bank and Treasury's preferred measure of wages growth - is released on Wednesday.
Economists expect the index rose by 0.6 per cent in the March quarter, which would keep the annual rate at around 2.1 per cent and only just above the pace of inflation.
It would remain close to the lowest level in almost 20 years.
