A fair price, backed by real labour data.

The Fair Price Portal facilitates fact-based costing and shared responsibility between buyers and suppliers to ensure prices sufficiently cover all labour expenses, including when wages are raised.

Proper costing of human rights and environmental aspects in garment and footwear production is a key enabler for improved working conditions, reduced environmental impact, and more resilient supply chains built on true buyer-supplier partnerships. It is a critical element in complying with HREDD and other ESG related regulation, and should always include active stakeholder engagement.

As the first step towards due diligence on wages, actual knowledge of the labour costs of garments is critical, and understanding how their prices relate to wages. This insight is necessary to quantify the required increase in the unit price of a garment that is required for the brand to assert that it has contributed its share to enable the factory to pay at least the legal minimum wage as a first step towards a living wage.

Fair Price is in itself not a verification tool to verify wage levels at the factory, and users should under no circumstance claim the payment of living wage is achieved purely because of the use of Fair Price. Fair Price is a means to an end, namely more transparent costing and shared responsibility between buyers and suppliers to raise wages. The use of Fair Price is not a goal in itself.