Salary Checks

More about the Salary Checks in WageIndicator websites

Salary Checks in:

Minimum Wage Checks in:

Time Check in:

• Netherlands

About the Salary Check

The wage information pages at the WageIndicator websites are crucial for attracting visitors. Each national Salary Check shows wage information for a number of occupations, controlled for variables such as:

• gender
• tenure
• education
• supervisory position
• promotion at the current firm
• region

The Salary Check uses the coefficients of occupation-specific wage regression analyses, based on the data of the WageIndicator web survey. Annually, Salary Checks are updated, using the most recent web survey data.
In addition, many WageIndicator websites now also include the crowd-pulling VIP Pay Check presenting wages of movie stars, heads of state, and other Very Important Persons.

For the initial start of the Salary Check pages so-called WageIndicator Checks have been developed. These WageIndicator Checks use national occupation-specific wage data from other sources, as long as a national WageIndicator data set has not yet sufficient data-intake (compare the Checks from South Africa, India, USA). These alternative data may come from establishment earnings, survey data, or other sources.

Four reasons to use the Salary Checks in WageIndicator sites
From the visitors' emails four main reasons for consulting the Salary Check pages emerge. The pages are consulted:

1. for job mobility decisions, mostly in the initial stage of the decision making process,
2. for annual performance talks with employers or at the start of wage negotiations,
3. by school pupils and students who face occupational choices,
4. by employers particularly in small and medium sized companies, whenever they recruit staff or start wage negotiations with their employees.