About WageIndicator

The WageIndicator Foundation is a global, independent, non-profit organisation. Our work began in 2000 with Vrouwenloonwijzer.nl, an inclusive salary check website aimed at working women. WageIndicator has now grown to a worldwide organisation that collects, analyses and shares information on Actual Wages, Minimum Wages, Living Wages, Labour Laws, Gig and Platform Work, Collective Agreements and much more.

Our mission is to ensure more labour market transparency for workers, employers and policy makers worldwide, advocacting that all workers earn a fair wage under good conditions.

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 200+ websites in 50+ national languages. Over 40 million people visited these websites in 2021.

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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Co-Founder Paulien Osse

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Co-Founder Kea Tijdens

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General Director Fiona Dragstra

Founded by two women, Paulien Osse and Prof. Kea Tijdens, WageIndicator has emphasised inclusivity throughout its existence. 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 groups - Research, Data, Communications, and Finance & Operations. 

Learn more

You can learn more about our work by viewing our projects and publications, or dive into our 2022 Annual Report 

Though our team members work across the world, our official address is:

Mondriaan Tower 17th floor
Amstelplein 36
1096 BC Amsterdam
The Netherlands

If you would like to get in touch with us, you can fill out our contact form or send an email to office@wageindicator.org. 

WageIndicator's Data Services

WageIndicator offers Living Wages and Living Income in combination with Statutory Minimum Wages and Labour Law for business, organisations and the like. Most of the clients are Multinational Enterprises with many locations in many countries. Want to know more? Check our Plans and Pricing and get in touch.

Lessons learned

Only a truly global, diverse team in which members respect each others knowledge can reach a high level. The balance between academics, journalists and social partners is crucial for a top quality WageIndicator operation.

Address & Numbers

Post & visiting address: 

WageIndicator Foundation
Mondriaan Tower 17th floor
Amstelplein 36
1096 BC Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Email: office@wageindicator.org 

  • VAT Number: 8124.82.463.B01 (Netherlands), NL812482463B01 (EU)
  • Chamber of Commerce (KvK) number: 34195586
  • RSN 812482463
  • BIC/SWIFT: RABONL2U
  • IBAN: NL90RABO0121799298. 

Established under Dutch Law 17 September 2003.

What we can offer

For businesses, alliances and networks: Licenses for indicators, Living Wage and Living Income data packages.

For governments: Mapping salary structures, making collective agreements comparable. Focus on gender and law.

For NGOs, trade unions and workers' associations: Capacity building in the world of labour on compliance, workers representation and improved social dialogue.

Organisation

Supervisory Board: 

  • Prof. dr. Rob van Tulder - Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (chair)
  • Janna Besamusca - University of Utrecht 
  • Maarten van Klaveren - Independent (finance)
  • Rachel Rietveld - University of Amsterdam
  • Willy Wagemans - Independent 
  • Douglas Opio - Federation of Uganda Employers 
  • David Plink - Top Employers Institute

    General management: 
  •  General Director: Fiona Dragstra
  •  Director Data: Daniela Ceccon
  •  Director Research: WageIndicator and CELSI - Marta Kahancova
  •  Director Finance & Operations: Rupa Korde
  •  Director Communications: Niels Peuchen
  •  Co-founders: Paulien Osse, prof. Kea Tijdens
    Learn more about our team, or over a 100 internss from across the world.

Ownership

WageIndicator Foundation is owner of the concept. The concept consist of WageIndicator websites; WageIndicator Salary and workings conditions - survey plus related Data set & Code book; Minimum and Living Wages Database; Collective Agreement Database; Salary Checks and Calculations; DecentWorkChecks and related Data base. 

Our impact in numbers in 2022

Testimonials

  • Thanks for educating employees in Kenya (Africapay.org/Kenya) to their rights and the employment act.
  • Mijn organisatie gebruikt loonwijzer als uitgangspunt voor transparante salarissen. Zo kan iedereen 3 functies uitzoeken waarvan hij/zij vindt dat de combinatie van functies het beste zijn/haar taken omschrijft en daar berekenen we dan het salaris uit. Dit werkt tot nog toe geweldig! Brainstud.
  • "BonjourVotresalaire.org/Madagascar -Je vous remercie pour votre aide et de votre soutien. Cela m'a beaucoup aidé, et finalement j'ai pu régler ma situation et cela grâce au lien que vous m'avez envoyé. Bonne journée et merci"
  • " I love the fact that stuff like this happens and I would love to be part of it. " - visitor Mywage.org/Zambia
  • " Labour law is not so easy to understand and straightforward, but this site does talk to us employees in lay-mans term, which is great. 
    I am currently a department manager in retail, I earn below the SD9 earnings threshold, does this mean I should be compensated for public holidays and sunday pay as I am not currently getting paid for this. In some weeks I work 56 hours with no overtime", visitor Mywage.co.za.
  • "Your site is extremely good!", a lawyer about Mojazarplata.by
  • "I am regular visitor of the site and would like to thank you for sharing various informative reading material which help people like me who works in HR to get updated with knowledge." Amol, about Paycheck.in.
  • “Dear Sir, yours is a very useful site, particularly for those who are at the bottom of earning norms, and therefore very helpless.” - Suneel Durv, about Paycheck.in.
  • "I have found the info very helpful. Thanks." - Sofia, about Mywage.co.za.
  • "Good site!" - Michiel, about Loonwijzer.nl.
  • "Please help, I am troubled. You are the only site which can help. I want to quit a teaching job while I am on probation. its only been 3 weeks. and I feel the job and I are not fit. I only feel depressed and stressed out all the time. as if I am in a jail. and the problem is, they havent yet given me my appointment letter neither have they informed me about the rules of quitting... I dont feel like spending a single sec in that enviornment. Help!"

Gender Equality Plan

WageIndicator was founded in 2000 by Paulien Osse, a trade union journalist and prof. Kea Tijdens, a labour market researcher, both specialised in gender issues. This guaranteed that the Salary Survey on Working Life and Wages as well as the content on all websites had a strong gender component right from the start. The gender focus is deeply ingrained in all activities ever since. Just a few illustrations: in all Salary Checks, we ask for peoples gender, with the aim to compare earnings and secondary working conditions, between men and women in similar jobs and labour market positions. Next to this, two major projects, the Labour Rights for Women and Decisions for Life projects, also confronted the reality most working women face in their work and (family) life. Over the years sexual harrasment has been a topic in all WageIndicator websites and in research, such as the project on Violence against Women at the Workplace in Benin, Honduras, Indonesia, and Moldova. And on policy development with NGO's and trade unions in South Africa and Indonesia.  Last but not least the gender focus of WageIndicator is reflected in the composition of its international staff: we have many (young) working mothers in the team, and its leadership are all female. 

WageIndicator's Gender Equality Plan includes information on the current gender equality situation at WageIndicator and contains policies that are or will be implemented to improve this situation. All workers, board members, freelancers, interns and other people involved should perform their activities in a transparent organisation that is free from prejudice. All voices should be heard and be encouraged to speak up, regardless of their background and position.

Learn more about WageIndicator's Gender Equality Plan

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