The Nurses' Global Wageindicator

Ph.D. (sociology), researcher

Kimmo KevätsaloWageindicator conference 16.4.2008

Amsterdam

www.kayttotieto.fi, tel. +358 400 500 583

• Research, expertise, consulting, training – Trade union movement– Competences of personnel and management– Trust in work organisations– Participation systems

• Internet-tools for different purposes, for instance:.– Comparing wages and salaries, employment and industrial relations of

industries and occupations in EU-countries and worldwide, www.wageindicator.org

– Tool for co-operative incentive system within work organisations www.provika.fi

•Responsible researcher, dr. Kimmo Kevätsalo

Developing the global Wageindicator as a product

• To be tempting for trade unions and other customer organisations Wageindicator ought to be more one of those ordinary Internet stuffs

• It is necessary to offer – reliable up-to-date information– ongoing research results and reports

• The strongest features of Internet surveys are international comparisons– Many languages– Comparative datasets– Cheap and rapid data gathering

Product development

• Convincing pilot –projects – The Finnish experience, printed and .pdf report

• Suitable occupations– Nurses– Also bank officials and professionals, it-professionals are

suitable occupations for pilots

• Why nurses– Homogenous occupation all over the world– Well educated– It-literate– Mainly public sector

• Good access to Internet

Necessary steps

• Discussions with local Wageindicator –teams and nurses’ trade unions– Preliminary discussions until now: Finland, Holland,

UK, Argentina, Brazil– Next countries: South-Africa, India, Italy, Poland,

Bulgaria, Hungary, Spain, Sweden and Denmark

• Budgeting• New discussion round

– Already agreed Argentina and Brazil from the 20th of November onwards

Realization

• Contents of the new tool– National portals – Salary-checker of purchasing power parities in

participating countries– Questionnaire mainly the general Wageindicator

questionnaire + some specific questions important for nurses

• Funding– Mainly national trade unions and funding institutions– Regional and international trade union federations – For the EU-area perhaps EU-commission– etc

Time schedule

• Help for organizing meetings with nurses’ organizations in all Wageindicator countries

• Preliminary agreements about participation until the end of February 2009

• Necessary programming of the tools until the end on March 2009

• Testing April-May 2009• Launching September 2009• Marketing all over the world when the pilot is

ready to be shown

Purchasing power parities of nurses in 6 EU-countries

2,04

1,56 1,5 1,47

1,05 1

0

0,5

1

1,5

2

2,5

UK Spain Germany Belgium Holland Finland

Wageindicator VII/2007, N= 4 078Price- and tax-levels from Statistics Finland 2006

Gross and net earnings of nurses in 6 EU-coutries

3833

2449

3241

2028

2858

2074

2745

1669

2725

1657

2544

1379

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

3500

4000

UK Belgium Germany Holland Spain Finland

Gross earnings Net earnings

Wageindicator VII/ 2007, N=4 078Tax levels, Satistics Finland 2006

Gross earnings transformed to be full time earnings euros/month; Net earnings=gross earnings – total taxes and levies in each country