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The June quarter Clarius Skills Index shows an emerging skilled labour shortage is expected to drive a 5.4 per cent annual increase in earnings over the next three years.

As a result, unemployment rates are set to drop below five per cent by early 2011.

Clarius Group Chief Operating Officer Kym Quick said the findings presented significant challenges ahead for employers and policy makers.

"The developments have some implications on interest rates, the population growth debate and decisions about temporary skilled worker visas," Ms Quick said in a statement on Monday.

"Currently there is a shortage in eight of the 20 skilled professional, associate professional and trades occupations measured in the index and a further two are on the cusp of a shortfall."

Ms Quick said the shortages were in the construction, engineering and building professions, and trade occupations in particular.

She said there was currently a shortage of 6,300 construction tradespersons.

While most other occupations were in the balanced range, several were approaching the high range of acute skills shortages, Ms Quick said.

"The clear message for the employer from the index is that they need to be prepared for a war for talent by ensuring they have the right skills now for their future demand and ensuring they have retention strategies in place to keep them there," she said.

"We also need policy makers to develop and implement initiatives that will address the potential skills shortages immediately and not wait for it to happen before taking action."

The latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows the average weekly wage for both private and public sectors combined was $1,242.20 for the three months to February.

That adds up to $64,594.40 a year.

Report was prepared by KPMG Econtech.

Images: Gold Coast, Surfice Paradise, "courtesy of Tourism Queensland"