Background:

This report updates to July 2020 living wage and living expenses/living income for rural Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu State, India.2 The net living wage (i.e. take-home pay required for basic decency) and living expenses (living cost for a reference size family of 4 for basic decency) were both updated to the study month of the most recent calendar year – July 2020 – to take into account the amount of inflation since the original study in July 2018. Without accounting for inflation, the net living wage estimated in 2018 would not be sufficient for workers to have a basic but decent standard of living in 2020 because the purchasing power of the living wage would have decreased. Similarly, living expenses for a reference family are also updated to July 2020 to account for inflation. The gross living wage (aka living wage) was updated to July 2020 by also taking into account mandatory deductions from pay that workers would need to pay on the updated 2020 living wage. This was done using July 2020 laws.

This report is an update to the original Anker Living Wage Benchmark report written in July 2018. Please click below to read the full Benchmark Study.

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