WageIndicator & Mojazarplata by Paulien Osse Director WageIndicator Foundation Plantage Muidergracht TV Amsterdam The Netherlands December 2007, Torino

What is it? WageIndicator is an idea Its mission is: Share and compare wage information Contribute to a transparant labour market Provide free, accurate wage data through salary checks on national websites Collect wage data through web surveys

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Websites & organisations The (board of the) WageIndicator Foundation is tripartite: trade union, university, media Teams on the national level are similar: (trade union) journalist, academic researcher and media End of 2007 worldwide 80 engaged collaborators

What makes WageIndicator websites attractive? Real wages, minimum wages, contract wages mumwagesinchina mumwagesinchina mwages mwages

What is minimum? We try to give minimum wages per month, week, day, hour, including special benefits. We encourage reporting underpayment (so far only English and Polish) Resulting in: you know now what you are entitled to!

Contract wages If you share your contract wages we show them online Given your data,we the display average and maximum wages online in/salarycheck in/salarycheck

Real wages per occupation We specialize in real wages broken down to: Educational level Firm size Type of contract Gender Region Market value Position Age and experience

How do we know about real wages? We create an attractive website, so people love to come and check wage information We invite users to complete our salary survey, and they can win a prize

Tell us your salary and we tell you what your colleague is earning. Mojazarplata.org Расскажите нам о своей зарплате, и мы расскажем, сколько зарабатывают ваши коллеги. Please complete our salary survey and win a prize. Mojazarplata.org Заполните нашу анкету и выиграйте приз. Mojazarplata.org

For whom is the survey Employees Selfemployed Students, trainees Disabled Pensioners

Everybody equal Employees and self employed get the same questions Thus we compare informal and formal occupational groups on the labour market with different contracts

Time and wage questions worldwide The salary survey is addressing different groups in the labour market, but they get the same questions about time, contract, wages, benefits. Similar means we can compare groups within a country and cross country.

Gender or minority Men, women, mothers, fathers, young, old, or from a different country do get the same questions. The result: we can analyze where the pay gap is exactly, and come up with policy tips for trade unions to close the pay gap.

Is WageIndicator perfect? WageIndicator intends to show what is really going on WageIndicator cannot be perfect, but together we approach perfection How?

Mojazarplata.org We offer our Mojazarplata website There you post information on minimum, contract and real wages Your target group? Workers, of course We offer a most powerful research tool /questionnaireruru /questionnaireruru

Who does what? You may: 1.Post a banner at your own website 2.Ask your friends and colleagues to do the same 3.Tell us which of your media partners might want to join this project. In Russia it is rb.ru – Independent Media. We would contract these partners 4.Encourage researchers that you know of to help all of us to analyse the data We will: 1.Do the wage calculations and bring a salary checker online for you 2.Train journalists from your organizations to help us manage Mojazarplata

And who pays for this dream? We look for funding – great if we get it But we don’t wait – go for it now!

Our common aim Use WageIndicator: improve conditions at your labour market and in your trade union!

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