Impact
Six numbers, each with the sentence that says how it was counted. No method, no number — and no claim about a worker’s life that the ledger cannot show.
Farms with a signed wage floor in force on 31 December 2025, counted from the ledger on this site.
The sum of each farm's payroll headcount at its last verification (2,912 on the ledger today, rounded). Seasonal pickers count if they appear on at least one pay sheet in the year.
Two visits per partner farm in 2025 (one for the farm that joined that January), each with a pay-record review and worker interviews chosen by the verifier, not the farm. Visits are listed under each farm on the ledger.
For each farm, (paid now minus paid before joining) divided by (benchmark minus paid before joining); farms already at benchmark count as 100%. The plain mean over the 14 farms, computed from the ledger.
The median paid daily rate across the 14 farms at their first verification visit, in US dollars at the rate of that day. A sample figure on this demonstration.
The median of the SAMPLE benchmarks on this ledger. A real ledger uses the regional living-wage benchmark published by the Global Living Wage Coalition (Anker methodology); no real benchmark figure appears on this demonstration.
The stat chips on the home page link here. The numbers 4 to 6 are computed from the ledger when the page is served, so they follow every staff edit.
What did not work
Twice a year was not enough on two farms. Both passed in the spring and had a shortfall by the autumn, because the harvest crew is hired in between. From 2026 those two get a third, unannounced visit in the harvest month.
A pledge is not a payment. One brand pledged in 2025 and had not paid by the spring sourcing check; the ledger now flags a pledge older than 90 days that is not paying, to staff and to the public.
The road. The spring 2026 visit to the newest farm was postponed by the road, and that farm is flagged “not verified in 180 days” today. The flag stays until a visit is recorded; hiding it would be the point of the site failing.
Goals
Every farm verified in the harvest month
A third visit for the two farms that slipped, and the flagged farm visited by November.
Two more brands paying
The two pledges on the list verified and paying by the autumn harvest, so the premium on cocoa reaches all five cocoa farms.
The gap under 25% on every farm
Three farms are still below 75% of benchmark. Their step schedules bring all three above it by the January floor rise.