The Nurses' Global Wageindicator Ph.D. (sociology), researcher Kimmo Kevätsalo Wageindicator conference Amsterdam

tel 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, –Tool for co-operative incentive system within work organisations 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 20 th 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 Wageindicator VII/2007, N= Price- and tax-levels from Statistics Finland 2006

Gross and net earnings of nurses in 6 EU-coutries Wageindicator VII/ 2007, N=4 078 Tax 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