The WageIndicator Foundation is a global, independent, non-profit organisation. We began in 2000 with Vrouwenloonwijzer.nl, an inclusive Salary Check and website aimed at working women. WageIndicator has grown to a worldwide organisation that collects, analyses and shares information on Salaries and Wages, Minimum Wages, Living Wages, Labour Laws, Gig and Platform Work, Collective Agreements and much more.
Our mission is to ensure improved labour market transparency for workers, employers and policy makers worldwide.
Our Work
To assist workers, their representatives, employers, and policymakers worldwide, WageIndicator provides coherent, independent and accessible labour market information for 206 countries (including territories and overseas areas) worldwide through 220 websites in 70+ national languages. Over 40 million people visited these websites in 2023.
To achieve our goals, we designed high-quality global databases on Living Wages, Minimum Wages, Actual Wages, Labour Laws, Collective Agreements and more, that are continously updated. We also developed several tools to gauge cost of living, labour law compliance, worker priorities, and salary levels.
With our quarterly-updated Living Wage database, WageIndicator helps (multinational) companies work towards implementing living wage in their company and the supply chain. We help them calculate wage gaps among their workers, create roadmaps to remedy these, and provide technical support as they do so. In this way, we help them create sustainable supply chains and ensure their workers are fairly compensated. Our Living Wages are also used by NGOs in their advocacy campaigns, and by auditing firms to support their clients.
In partnership with leading universities and academic institutes across the world, WageIndicator undertakes cutting-edge research on wages, working conditions, labour law compliance, the gig economy, Collective Agreements, and more.
Our Team
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Founded by two women, Paulien Osse and Prof. Kea Tijdens, WageIndicator has always emphasised inclusivity in its operations and team. The balance between academics, journalists and social partners is crucial. Our official address is in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, but our work is made possible by a truly global and diverse group of over 100 team members and 150 interns based across Europe, Africa, North America, Latin-America and Asia, mostly operating online. They are structured in four teamsb that also criss-cross every day: Research, Data, Communications, and Finance & Operations.
