The Chain · Wage Compliance Package
Pay the wage, at the price that allows it.
Factory wage data, living wage gap analysis and negotiation-room pricing — in one package. See the gap before the PO is signed, not after the audit finds it.
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01 — Why Now
The wage gap doesn't show up in the audit. It shows up in the price.
Factories rarely push back on price — not because it's fair, but because pushing back risks losing the order. By the time compliance reporting flags a wage gap, the PO that caused it was signed months ago.
CSRD / ESRS S2
Disclosure Obligation
CS3D · Post-Omnibus I
Legal Duty of Care
One is a reporting exercise. The other is a legal duty with your name on it. We build for both — around the second.
40,000+
workers analysed across 12 countries
02 — What's Included
Four tools. One wage picture.
The Wage Compliance package puts factory data, product data and negotiation pricing on one platform — so nobody's working from a different number.
Every factory, one file
Payroll data for every Tier 1 supplier in one place. Minimum wage, living wage, overtime and gender pay gap flagged factory by factory — not buried in an annual audit. An HREDD-aligned scorecard rates process maturity, not just a pass/fail number.
Upload payroll, get the gap
Living wage benchmarking against the Anker Research Institute and WageIndicator — two equally weighted, EU-recognised benchmarks. Geomapping identifies the most appropriate wage for each factory's exact location, and overtime pay, real wage growth and statutory tax bands are checked automatically, region by region.
Every style's sampling journey
The full sampling journey into production, held against the factory that's making it — so an FOB price is never just a number on a spec sheet. Each style carries its negotiation journey with it: what was quoted, what was countered, and what it closed at.
Cost to Close
One number: the per-garment cost of closing the living wage gap — live in the room where the PO gets signed. Factories, Wage Tracker and Products all feed it: wage gap by supplier, benchmark by region, and FOB by style's own negotiation journey. The uplift moves through a separate living wage differential line, paid as wages, not folded into FOB unless the floor itself is at risk.
03 — Advisory Support
Software shows you the gap. Our team helps you close it.
A dashboard on its own isn't a wage compliance package. Every package includes hands-on advisory support, from the first factory upload to the report that goes out the door — all lined up to the Fairtrade standard.
Talk to our advisory teamOnboarding
Factory-by-factory setup, run around production schedules — not against them.
Factory reviews
Our team checks payroll data before it ever feeds the Wage Tracker, on-site or remotely.
Deep dive work
Targeted investigation wherever the data flags a breach — minimum wage shortfalls, unpaid or misrecorded overtime.
Full reports
Compliance-ready reporting, written and checked by our team — not just exported off a dashboard.
Distribution support
Factory-to-worker payment tracking and reconciliation, run to the Fairtrade standard.
Verified, not self-reported. The Chain is Fairtrade's recommended wage tracker technology partner — methodology aligned to FloCert verification and the Fairtrade Textile Standard, so your wage data holds up outside your own dashboard too.
Trusted by
"32 out of 50 factories are paying above living wage."
Frankie Hewitson, Founder — The Frank Co.
04 — How It Works
From payroll to negotiating room.
01
Upload payroll
Factory templates, no training needed — or connect via existing integrations.
02
We benchmark
Anker Research Institute and WageIndicator, geomapped to each factory's location.
03
See the gap
Wage Tracker dashboard, Cost to Close live in the negotiation room.
04
We verify
Fairtrade-aligned methodology, checked before reporting goes anywhere.
05 — Frequently Asked
Your wage compliance questions, answered.
We benchmark against the Anker Research Institute and WageIndicator Foundation — two equally weighted, EU-recognised sources, the latter referenced directly in ESRS S2 guidance. Geomapping matches each factory to the most appropriate wage for its exact location, rather than a single national average.
No — it feeds it. But the package is designed around the stronger exposure: CS3D's legal duty of care and civil liability, not just the ESRS S2 disclosure line.
No — that's the point. The uplift and floor numbers sit in the room already, calculated before the call, not requested afterwards.
No. Above-floor gap-closing runs through the living wage differential — a separate line paid as wages, not a social spend. FOB itself shows what the FOB needs to be, itemised on the negotiation payment plan. It's also the figure that ensures pricing doesn't fall below minimum wage or Fairtrade base wages, when the floor is at risk of being breached.
Flexible, based on the number of factories and suppliers on the package. After a scoping call we provide a transparent quote — no hidden costs.
Get wage compliant — before the negotiation, not after.
Factory wage data in one file, not one audit a year
Fairtrade-aligned methodology, FloCert-verified
Cost to Close live at the table, every PO