The Fair Wage
Solution
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Our Services
The
Fair Wage
solution
A connected ecosystem of certification, analytics, and workforce benchmarking designed for modern global supply chains.
Our Approach
Fair Wage is an economically rigorous standard and methodology designed to assess, develop and optimize wage policies.
Going beyond typical sustainability indicators like Living Wage and Equal Salary, and systematically correlating with performance and profitability indicators, the Fair Wage Approach equips you with the data needed to make informed decisions.
Living Wage Database
Our unique online database provides living wage thresholds for over 200 countries and more than 3500 localities.
Living Wage Gap Analysis
Learn about any wage gaps in your company or suppliers, with results by country, entity or category of workers, and identify strategies for improvement.
Become a Certified Living Wage Employer
Through validation of your wage data results, gain international recognition as a global employer paying all its employees - including among of your suppliers - a living wage or more.
Fair Wage Certification
Ensure the highest standards on key wage areas and obtain a label ensuring excellence on wage policy, ensuring long-term wage sustainability.
The 12 Fair Wage Dimensions
Develop and optimize wage policies.
We integrate 12 dimensions covering the entire spectrum of wage indicators, generating a new standard of excellence with demonstrated impact.
The Fair Wage Network team is internationally recognized as one of the most knowledgeable groups to address wages and related issues at both a company & global supply chain level. Our unique legitimacy stems from cooperation with all stakeholders and their contribution to international debates on wages. Focusing on pay systems, wage-fixing and wage-adjustment mechanisms that benefit both the business and the workers, we offer a holistic approach to addressing wages.
Unlike an audit, the Fair Wage Method focuses its assessment on partnerships through worker and management surveys, identifying root causes, and implementing improvements, including within Human Resources policies and practices. The Fair Wage standard is defined by 12 dimensions, which cover the full spectrum of wage indicators.
A thirteenth dimension helps to capture how much fair wage practices can be more prominently placed at the core of your company’s overall strategy, especially to strengthen HR and Sustainability policies. This is now a requirement from investors and for the proper good implementation of the new EU directives on corporate sustainability.
Here's how it works
A complete methodology for assessing, improving and certifying fair wage practices.
Fair Wage Network combines global wage intelligence, living wage analysis, enterprise assessments, remediation planning and certification into one integrated framework designed to strengthen both worker wellbeing and business performance.
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Living Wage Database
Global wage intelligence platform
The Fair Wage Network has developed living wage references for every country and geographical region in the world, offering a balanced aggregate living wage amount. Through a combination of surveys among workers to better capture their family expenditures, and surveys among local markets/shops to get the right prices of basic commodities, the database offers local thresholds that closely match local living costs.
Kept up to date by permanent data collection by a group of researchers, our database contains all thresholds on the living wage and prevailing wages calculated by statistical offices, research institutes and non-governmental organizations around the world, resulting in a very rich set of results which help companies assess wage levels, identify root causes, and put in place any necessary remediation.
Recognized at the international level, and used by major brands and suppliers, our database offers a truly global understanding of living wage standards
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Living Wage Gap Analysis
Secure analytics & workforce reporting
Our rich database allows the Fair Wage Network to carry out living wage gap analyses for brands and their individual companies/suppliers.
After sharing wage data on a secured and anonymous platform, each company receives an individual report that provides the average living wage gap in the company, the percentage of workers still being paid below the living wage, with breakdowns by gender and employee category.
The Fair Wage Network also provides recommendations on how to close the gap in a balanced, cost-effective and progressive way.
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Assessment Process
On-site evaluation & workforce surveys
The Fair Wage Approach begins with an assessment of company wage practices through our robust Fair Wage Framework.
Our economically rigorous method The Fair Wage Approach was developed to give robust wage indicators to identify a comprehensive and overall assessment of an enterprise’s performance in the wage area.
Following the selection of specific business units to assess, Fair Wage Network sends its team to personally visit the company, performing data gathering through anonymous surveys to both management and representative samples of the workforce.
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Validation and Certification
AN ICON OF QUALITY AND ETHICS IN WAGE SETTING
Available to companies with exemplary wage policies and practices, our Fair Wage Label certification is the ultimate recognition of fair wage practices. Both a robust HR tool and a powerful branding statement, the Fair Wage label offers a clear competitive advantage.
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