Victorian union campaigns for higher teachers’ and nurses’ wages have been reflected in new pay stats.

Victorian nurses and teachers have enjoyed above-average wage growth over the past year, according to figures for the three months to June, released on this week.

Despite low demand and inflation keeping the official Wage Price Index at a record low, union-led campaigns for better pay in Victoria appear to have worked.

The state’s Labor Government has agreed to rises of up to 4.8 per cent in some instances for the state’s 40,000 nurses and midwives.

Public healthcare workers saw 2.8 per cent wage growth during the quarter compared with the same period a year earlier, leading all government professions.

Wages in public ­education rose 2.5 per cent.

Those figures are considerably higher than the across-the-board wage growth of 1.9 per cent — which has not budged from the record lows first reached in September last year.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics says private sector wages are up 1.8 per cent on a year ago, while the public sector was up 2.4 per cent.