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The Nurses' Global Wageindicator

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

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The Nurses' Global Wageindicator

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  1. The Nurses' Global Wageindicator Ph.D. (sociology), researcher Kimmo Kevätsalo Wageindicator conference 16.4.2008 Amsterdam

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Purchasing power parities of nurses in 6 EU-countries Wageindicator VII/2007, N= 4 078 Price- and tax-levels from Statistics Finland 2006

  9. Gross and net earnings of nurses in 6 EU-coutries Gross earnings transformed to be full time earnings euros/month; Net earnings=gross earnings – total taxes and levies in each country Wageindicator VII/ 2007, N=4 078 Tax levels, Satistics Finland 2006

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