What is WAGECODE?
WAGECODE is the public, implementation-independent protocol specification for governed wage economic state.
WAGECODE is a public, implementation-independent protocol specification governing how wage economic state is represented, computed, attested, relied upon, replayed and audited through version-bound requirements, canonical objects, declared bindings and conformance rules.
It provides a controlled protocol basis for converting unstable narrative wage information into governed wage meaning that can be represented, computed, evidenced, referenced, replayed and interpreted within declared boundaries.
WAGECODE is not the generic phrase "wage code". It is not a minimum-wage table, payroll category, labour-code database, living-wage campaign, salary checker, or employment-law index.
What WAGECODE defines
WAGECODE defines protocol conditions for wage-state meaning.
Those conditions include how wage information is represented, how evidence posture is declared, how policy binding is identified, how issuer scope is limited, and how wage-state information may be replayed or referenced within a stated boundary.
WAGECODE does not decide legal, regulatory, credit, insurance, bargaining, funding, audit or adjudicative outcomes. It provides a protocol basis for the wage-state meaning on which institutions may rely within their own authority and responsibility.
WAGECODE Entity Reference
WAGECODE and CWSO Authority
WAGECODE defines the protocol authority layer.
CWSO Authority operationalises WAGECODE as a governed wage runtime. That runtime layer supports governed wage engagement, diagnostic pathways, artefact issuance, verification posture and institutional interaction.
The distinction is important: WAGECODE is the protocol reference. CWSO Authority is the operational runtime maintained for the current WAGECODE public pathway.