The majority of garment workers around the world are paid below a living wage rate. A wage increase is an urgent matter for supply chain workers enabling them to support themselves and their families. When a company reports annually on progress towards the payment of living wages to workers in its supply chain, it gives stakeholders an indication of the outcomes of a company's efforts to increase workers' wages.

A note on the scoring system

WikiRate has a standardised 10-point scoring system making it possible to compare company scores across different benchmarks. On WikiRate.org, the Fashion Transparency Index scoring system, where each company can get a maximum of 250 points, has been converted to the 10-point scoring system - with 10 being the highest a company can score and 0 being the lowest. These company scores can also be translated to percentages e.g. if a company has scored 2.5 out of 10 on WikiRate, they have achieved 25% of the 250 points in the Fashion Transparency Index.