Fair Wage Project
About The Fair Wage Project
What is a Fair Wage?
A Fair Wage should provide an adequate income to lift artisans out of poverty and provide sustainable development.
A Fair Wage should provide:
• Food
• Shelter
• Clothing
• Health care
• Education
• Savings
Does a Fair Wage alone guarantee an adequate income?
No.
Often artisans have to take high interest loans to afford Health care, Education and Savings.
For example: If a child has to go to hospital the family will have to spend 60% of their annual income at one time.
How can we calculate a Fair Wage?
World of Good Development Organisation has created a Fair Trade Wage Guide (FTWG) as a tool for craft artisans to enter their wage details and measure them against both national and international poverty parameters. Artisans can calculate a Fair Wage based on the results.
Those artisans who are interested are visited by two MESH field workers to help:
A Fair Wage should provide an adequate income to lift artisans out of poverty and provide sustainable development.
A Fair Wage should provide:
• Food
• Shelter
• Clothing
• Health care
• Education
• Savings
Does a Fair Wage alone guarantee an adequate income?
No.
Often artisans have to take high interest loans to afford Health care, Education and Savings.
For example: If a child has to go to hospital the family will have to spend 60% of their annual income at one time.
How can we calculate a Fair Wage?
World of Good Development Organisation has created a Fair Trade Wage Guide (FTWG) as a tool for craft artisans to enter their wage details and measure them against both national and international poverty parameters. Artisans can calculate a Fair Wage based on the results.
Those artisans who are interested are visited by two MESH field workers to help:
- Analyse present wage rates using the FTWG
- Identify better wage rates
- Test revised wages using the FTWG
- Suggest additional benefits such as health insurance & provident fund
