All in One: (re)Introducing WageIndicator.org
The scale of change in global and local labour markets is substantial. The world of work is reshaped by the green transition, AI and demographic changes, platform work is growing, collective agreements are evolving, and cost of living rises while (minimum) wages are not always updated accordingly. Clear and transparent labour market information is a necessity, not a luxury. Which is exactly why WageIndicator exists. To navigate a changing world, we are bringing everything together. After merging 242 websites into one, we are excited to reintroduce WageIndicator.org. One website, for everyone, everywhere.
WageIndicator.org: data that works for everyone
For almost three decades, WageIndicator was known under many names in many countries: Gajimu, Loonwijzer, Mojazarplata, Tusalario, MyWage, VotreSalaire, Rawateb, MeuSalario and more. Different names, different websites, one mission. Now they all live under one roof. We still provide labour market information for over 200 countries and territories, available in local languages, continuously updated, but now brought together on one easy-to-navigate, globally accessible website.
Many families, individuals, trade unions, employers, NGOs, media, policy makers and companies from all over the world rely on our data and information. Workers and their families use it to understand their rights and negotiate better pay. Companies use it to set living wage policies across their own operations and supply chains. Trade unions use it at the bargaining table. Governments refer to it for monitoring and legislative reform. Researchers build on it. Journalists report from it. WageIndicator.org makes the world of work transparent for everyone. Unified. Accessible. Faster.
Our mission remains the same: we aim to provide access to clear, reliable information about living wages, minimum wages, jobs and salaries, labour laws and collective agreements for everybody. To improve labour market transparency for employees, self-employed, employers, social partners and policymakers worldwide. Across all countries, industries, and people.
We are the same organisation, with the same information, but with a new look.
From Loonwijzer to 242 websites to one: WageIndicator over the years
WageIndicator was founded in 2000 by journalist Paulien Osse and Professor Kea Tijdens with one urgent observation: salary information existed, but not for everyone. It was built for highly educated men at the top of the labour market. Women, young workers, the self-employed and low and medium-skilled workers were left without it. So Loonwijzer was born, the first WageIndicator website of many.
It all started with Loonwijzer.nl
From 2004, WageIndicator expanded across Europe. In 2006, minimum wage data collection began in Paraguay and India, leading to what is now the largest and most up to date Minimum Wage database in the world, covering 216 countries and territories. In 2008, the Decisions for Life project pushed the work further, resulting in the first Decent Work Check, a tool workers and trade unions could use to understand their labour rights. The Labour Law database grew from there. In 2012, WageIndicator teamed up with trade unions and employers across 12 countries in Africa to digitise and annotate collective bargaining agreements, building a global Collective Bargaining Agreements database that now covers thousands of agreements across most sectors worldwide. In 2013, we started calculating Living Wage estimates for 100 countries. Now in 2026, WageIndicator delivers quarterly datasets with 3 types of Living Wages and GPS-coded Minimum Wages to companies, governments and NGOs with between 1-25.000 locations for 186 countries and regions within. WageIndicator’s Living Wages follow the ILO Principles and are recommended by IDH and BCorp and can be used for sustainability reporting under the European Sustainability Reporting guidelines (ESRS).
Your Go-To Source for Transparent Labour Market Information
All this information was shared on local websites in local languages to ensure everyone, everywhere could have access to information they need to make a better informed decision. WageIndicator became a network of 242 local websites providing this information globally. Growing up together with the internet, sharing public information on local sites was the way to go. Now, we have adapted WageIndicator.org to how people search for, use and access information. This includes up-to-date Minimum Wages, a global Living Wage database and locally applicable estimates, a Salary Check, a Gross/Nett Check, up-to-date and comparable Collective Agreements and Labour Law, interviews with experts, free events and webinars, and much more. With direct access to labour market information in whichever country in the world in the local language, and with global and local stories and insights on the world of work. Welcome to the new WageIndicator.org - your forever go-to-source for transparent labour market information.
The first draft of bringing everything together
What's next?
- Gross/Nett Checker for 160 countries will be released in the summer of 2026.
- The 4th edition of the WageIndicator Labour Rights Index will be published on October 7th, World Day of Decent Work. The Labour Rights Index is unique in its ambition and scope, scoring labour laws in 165 countries relative to the Decent Work Agenda of the International Labour Organisation.
- Imagine being able to compare labour laws with collective bargaining agreements and a pension database in relation to international regulations?! That’s just one of our cool projects that we’re releasing in the fall of 2026!
- Living Pension for 174 countries, scheduled for release in November 2026 alongside a pension database for as many countries as possible. Stay tuned.
- WageIndicator and FLAME University International Conference 2026: Work, Wages and Workforce. This global conference will be held from 30 November to 1 December 2026 at FLAME University in Pune, India and promises to be an unique conference on labour market dynamics.
