23 June 2023
Kalan Baker
[FYI request #22927 email]
Dear Kalan
Thank you for your Official Information Act (OIA) request, received on 26 May 2023. You
requested:
Hello not sure what department to contact but I would like to know how the living wage
in nz is calculated.
On 1 June 2023 my office wrote to you to advise that the living wage is promulgated by NGO
Living Wage Movement Aotearoa New Zealand who are provided with the living wage figure
by New Zealand Family Centre Social Policy Unit. The calculations behind this figure are
publicly available at
https://www.livingwage.org.nz/reports_and_research
I trust this addresses the information you requested. Given I hold no further information, I am
therefore refusing your request under section 18(g) of the OIA because the information is not
held.
You have the right to ask the Ombudsman to investigate and review my decision.
Yours sincerely
Hon Grant Robertson
Minister of Finance