All publications: living wage
GB.355/POL/1
Report on the implementation of the conclusions of the Meeting of Experts on wage policies, including living wages
This document outlines the progress achieved in implementing the conclusions of the Meeting of Experts on wage policies, including living wages adopted by the Governing Body at its 350th Session (March 2024). The Governing Body is invited to take...
Report
Economic factors for wage setting
This report is part of an effort by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to strengthen the evidence base for wage setting and to support governments and social partners in negotiating and determining adequate wage levels that take into...
Report
A methodology to estimate the needs of workers and their families for the purpose of wage setting, including living wages
This report outlines the ILO’s methodology for estimating the needs of workers and their families to support evidence-based wage setting, including living wages. It provides practical guidance for using household income and expenditure surveys and...
Living wages: training tool
WSSD2 Brief
Advancing decent work for all: The role of wage policies, including living wages
The policy brief discusses the role of wage policies, including living wages, in advancing decent work and social justice. It highlights wage trends, persistent inequalities, the importance of minimum wage systems, and the need for evidence-based...
Guidance Note
Guidance note: Wage protection for migrant workers
Working time and wages are the working conditions that have the most direct and tangible effect on the everyday lives of workers and employers. Wages can determine job choice, the number of hours worked, and whether or not to migrate for employment....
ILO Brief
Setting adequate wages: The question of living wages
This brief provides an ILO perspective on the question of living wages and describes how the ILO promotes the setting of adequate wages that consider both the needs of workers and their families, and economic factors. In going forward, the ILO...
Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 90
The International Labour Organization and the Living Wage: A Historical Perspective
Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 29
Estimating a living wage: A methodological review