An overview of women’s work and employment in Azerbaijan
What is WageIndicator?
WageIndicator has websites in 50 countries. In every country, a national website has a free Salary Check.
This Check provides detailed information about the wages, on average earned in a wide range of occupa-
tions, taken into account personal characteristics, such as tenure/age, education, supervisory position, re-
gion and alike.
Apart from the Salary Check, the websites in many countries have attractive web-tools, such as Mini-
mum Wage Checks, DecentWorkCheck, Gross-Net Earnings Check, and alike. In addition, most websites
have content about wages, working conditions, labour standards and related topics. Each country has at least
one website. Multilingual countries have two or more websites. In addition, many countries have websites
for target groups, for example women or youth. The project website is www.wageindicator.org.
Worldwide, the national WageIndicator websites attract large numbers of web-visitors. The websites are
consulted by workers for their job mobility decisions, annual performance talks or wage negotiations. They
are consulted by school pupils, students or re-entrant women facing occupational choices, or by employers
in small and medium sized companies when recruiting staff or negotiating wages with their employees.
In return for all free information provided, the web-visitors are encouraged to complete a web-survey,
which takes 10 to 20 minutes. The survey has detailed questions about earnings, benefits, working conditions,
employment contract, training, as well as questions about education, occupation, industry, and household
characteristics. This web-survey is comparable across all countries. The web-survey is continuously posted
at all WageIndicator websites, of course in the national language(s) and adapted to country-specific issues,
where needed. The data from the web-survey are used for the calculations, underlying the Salary Check. For
occupations with at least 50 observations in the national database a salary indication can be calculated. The
Salary Checks are updated annually.
The project started in 2000 in the Netherlands with a large-scale, paper-based survey to collect data on
women’s wages. In 2001 the first WageIndicator website with a Salary Check and a web-survey was launched.
Since 2004, websites were launched in European countries, in North and South America, in South-Africa,
and in countries in Asia. All large economies of the world currently have a WageIndicator website, among
which the USA, the Russian Federation, China, India and Brazil. From 2009 onwards, websites are being
launched in more African countries, as well as in Indonesia and in a number of post-soviet countries. More
information about the WageIndicator Foundation and its activities can be found at www.wageindicator.org.
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