How to calculate a Living Wage globally

What is a Living Wage? 

• The Living Wage is based on the concept that work should provide an adequate income to cover the necessary living costs of a family.
• Calculated for a family, not a single worker
• Based on actual expenses in a given community,
  and taxes and gov’t benefits
• The motto of many living wage campaigns is to
  ‘make the minimum wage a living wage’
• Living wage is voluntary, not legislated.