In our last what we call “Help Wanted” report, which we do on a quarterly basis, we did compare the average increase in wages, because it's part of a monthly thing that we do as part of the “Business Barometer”, where we ask about the average wage and price increases they are foreseeing for their companies for the next three months, and we compare those with the companies that said they had job vacancies. What we found was that those with long-term job vacancies actually had higher increases in pay. So they were trying to increase their salaries to attract more people. Again, I don't have exact numbers, but we know that the actual amounts they were trying to increase salaries by for those vacant jobs were quite a bit higher across the board. It didn't matter by sector, it didn't matter by size, and it didn't matter by region. It was generally across the board: if they had longer-term job vacancies, they were much more likely to have higher salary increases than those that did not.
On October 28th, 2014. See this statement in context.