Both pursuing a global approach and perspective WageIndicator Foundation and the GLO collaborate to promote the collection of data in all countries and provide access to this data.
The underlying aim is to ensure transparency and enable informed decisions for all actors on the labour market, the academic community, policy makers, employers and workers as well as households and individuals.

Through WageIndicator the GLO provides access to databases on Wages, Income and Prices (including the Minimum Wage database, the Real Wages database & Salary Checks, Wages in Context and Cost of Living / Living Wage data base) as well as on Labour Law and Collective Agreements (including the Labour Law Database and the Collective Agreements Database).

WageIndicator Global Coverage 2020

Data on Wages, Income and Prices

1. Minimum Wage database
   • Global and national teams collects all minimum wage rates
   • Up to date as gazetted, since 2010
   • Minimum wages regulations for 110 countries
   • Information in English and national language
   • By the start of 2020  in 140 countries
   • Access:  https://wageindicator.org/salary/minimum-wage
   • Access to data: office (ad) wageindicator.org
2. Real Wages database & Salary Checks
   • Mini-survey in Salary Check & opt-in survey on work and wages
   • Surveys posted on the national WageIndicator websites, since 2006
   • 450,000 observations per year
   • Offline data-collection using survey app
   • By the start of 2020 salary check in 75 countries
   • Access: Salary Checks:  https://wageindicator.org/salary/Salarycheckers
   • Access: Salary Surveys: https://wageindicator.org/salary/salary-survey
   • Access to data: office (ad) wageindicator.org
3. Cost of Living / Living Wage data base
   • Cost-of-living survey asking for prices of 300 items, since 2014
   • Survey posted on the national WageIndicator websites,
   • Offline data-collection using online/offline app where internet is not so strong
   • Result: By the start of 2020 living wage estimates for individual, standard and typical families now for 112 countries
   • Access: Living wages:  https://wageindicator.org/salary/wages-in-context
   • Access: Cost of living surveys : https://wageindicator.org/salary/living-wage/wageindicator-cost-of-living-survey
   • Access to data of regional and city level, office (ad) wageindicator.org
4. Wages in Context
   • National poverty line, Minimum wages, Living wages,Low, medium high skilled wages are presented in context
   • By the start of 2020 Wages in Context for 112 countries
   • Access: Wages in Context: https://wageindicator.org/salary/wages-in-context

Data on Labour Law and Collective Agreements

1. Labour Law Database
   • WageIndicator collects data of 50 labour law topics
   • Yearly update, always links to national law, since 2008
   • Text always in English and national language
   • Compliance Check with law and minimum wages, online and offline
   • By the start of 2020 in 104 countries
   • Access: to labour Law:  https://wageindicator.org/labour-laws/labour-law-around-the-world
   • Access to data: office (ad) wageindicator.org
2. Collective Agreements (CBA) Database
   • WageIndicator collects CBAs from social partners, since 2013
   • Text is coded according to more than 100 variables
   • Full text and codes are presented in the national WageIndicator websites
   • Clauses comparable, best sample CBA’s can be generated from the database
   • By the start of 2020  1300 CBA’s of 56 countries
   • Access to Collective Agreements: https://wageindicator.org/labour-laws/collective-bargaining-agreements/collective-agreement-database-per-country-1
   • Access to data: office (ad) wageindicator.org

About WageIndicator

• Aim: transparency, assisting workers/employers to make informed decisions on daily basis on the basis of factual information
• All national WageIndicator websites are in the national language(s); the overall global site is in English: wageindicator.org
• In 2019 WageIndicator had 42 million visitors, of which approx.  60%  through mobile.  Users left behind: 480.000 completed salary surveys.
• Target group – workers, job seekers, small employers PLUS social partners, governments, OECD, ILO, academic community…
• Start in 2001 in Netherlands, since 2004 websites in neighboring countries, since 2006 websites in countries in other continents, currently in 140 countries, “easy” to enlarge to 193 countries, which is the plan for 2021
• Global teams operate from The Netherlands (HQ University of Amsterdam), and from small offices from: Argentina, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, Slovak Republic, South Africa, Tanzania. There are many national specialized contact persons. In many countries social partners work together with WageIndicator.
• The Team

All databases use same supporting databases

Unit	Countries	Language
country names	NA	currently in 48 languages
currencies	NA	currently in 48 languages
regions and cities	167 countries	English + nat. language
350 industry names, coded NACE-2.0 3 / 4 digit	NA	currently in 48 languages
1700 occupational titles, coded ISCO-08 5 digit	In 2017 5000 titles	currently in 48 languages
educational levels, coded   ISCED-97 (soon ISCED-11)	140 countries	English + nat. language
largest companies in country	for CBA database	NA
trade union database