The 2025/26 Living Wage rate is $28.95
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Everyday people across Aotearoa are campaigning for a Living Wage

We’re in cities and towns all over Aotearoa, speaking up and raising public awareness and understanding of the issues facing low paid workers, and encouraging decision makers and employers to pay a Living Wage.

If you want to play a role in changing the lives of workers in your town, city, or around the country – join us.

Local Living Wage Alliances

We have alliances of faith, union, and community groups coming together across the country to win the Living Wage in their local communities

Local Living Wage Alliances

South Auckland Living Wage Network

South Auckland Living Wage Network

The South Auckland network was launched midway through 2025 and is focused on organising among local faith, union, and community groups to stand with low-paid workers in the community and win a Living Wage. Key focuses of this group include organising in local government to ensure workers employed by council-controlled organisations are paid a Living Wage, and supporting the national schools campaign. To get involved please email our local organiser Geoffrey Tuita

 Wellington Living Wage Alliance

Wellington Living Wage Alliance

The Wellington movement is welded together by the Member Organisations Council (MOC), which is made up of over 30 faith, union, and community organisations — all focused on creating a Living Wage City. The MOC meets quarterly and has an elected steering group that meets monthly to run the day-to-day organising of the movement. Key focuses have been on Resene Paints, Victoria University of Wellington, Local Government, Living Wage Schools and more. To find out more please contact our local organiser Finn Cordwell

Christchurch Living Wage

Christchurch Living Wage

The Christchurch network of Living Wage Organisers is a group of member organisations that meets to organise around our national Living Wage Schools campaign and local employers in the area. To get involved, please contact our Lead Community Organiser, Finn Cordwell

Living Wage Waitaki

Living Wage Waitaki

This small group, based in Oamaru in the South Island, meets regularly and is focused on organising around the Waitaki District Council becoming a Living Wage Employer, as well as uniting local schools behind our Living Wage Schools campaign. To get involved, please contact our Lead Community Organiser, Finn Cordwell