Global Rankings: Wage Salaried Workers % (2023)

Rank	Country	Value
1	Qatar	99.61
2	Kuwait	98.05
3	Bahrain	97.37
4	Oman	96.57
5	Belarus	95.46
6	Norway	95.43
7	United Arab Emirates	95.13
8	United States	93.92
9	Macao	93.52
10	Russian Federation	93.42
11	Saudi Arabia	93.17
12	Brunei Darussalam	92.37
13	Denmark	91.58
14	Hong Kong	91.54
15	Germany	91.37
16	Japan	90.50
17	Luxembourg	90.07
18	Cyprus	89.48
19	Sweden	89.35
20	Estonia	88.89
21	Virgin Islands, U.S.	88.88
22	Bulgaria	88.71
23	Israel	88.31
24	Jordan	88.30
25	Lithuania	88.14
26	Guam	88.10
27	Hungary	87.71
28	France	87.08
29	Australia	86.94
30	Canada	86.85
31	Finland	86.81
32	Singapore	86.68
33	Latvia	86.61
34	United Kingdom	86.58
35	Croatia	86.46
36	Iceland	86.32
37	Ireland	86.25
38	Slovenia	85.74
39	Portugal	85.45
40	Belgium	84.98
41	Libya	84.91
42	Slovakia	84.87
43	Malta	84.85
44	Spain	84.83
45	Austria	84.28
46	Bahamas	84.19
47	North Macedonia	84.07
48	South Africa	83.69
49	Czechia	83.51
50	Netherlands	83.50
51	Switzerland	83.39
52	New Caledonia	83.16
53	Puerto Rico	82.88
54	French Polynesia	82.52
55	Mauritius	81.53
56	Montenegro	81.27
57	New Zealand	81.14
58	Poland	80.10
59	Barbados	79.54
60	Italy	78.63
61	Maldives	78.10
62	Bosnia and Herzegovina	77.30
63	Romania	77.20
64	Suriname	76.93
65	Korea, Republic of	76.82
66	Chile	75.35
67	Kazakhstan	74.61
68	Tunisia	74.50
69	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	74.38
70	Argentina	74.25
71	Trinidad and Tobago	74.02
72	Egypt	73.91
73	Costa Rica	73.05
74	Tajikistan	73.00
75	Serbia	72.95
76	Malaysia	72.36
77	Cuba	71.63
78	Türkiye	71.40
79	Saint Lucia	70.83
80	Uruguay	70.65
81	Lebanon	70.44
82	Greece	69.05
83	Botswana	68.92
84	Brazil	68.77
85	Mexico	68.65
86	Fiji	68.59
87	Turkmenistan	68.47
88	Iraq	68.40
89	Guyana	68.07
90	Algeria	67.91
91	Kyrgyzstan	67.36
92	Gabon	66.15
93	Syrian Arab Republic	65.52
94	Eswatini	65.14
95	Belize	63.95
96	El Salvador	63.66
97	Philippines	63.25
98	Jamaica	62.72
99	Cabo Verde	61.49
100	Lesotho	61.42
101	Panama	61.09
102	Namibia	60.87
103	Guatemala	60.46
104	Mongolia	60.23
105	Morocco	60.05
106	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	59.45
107	Rwanda	58.75
108	Paraguay	58.68
109	Sri Lanka	58.19
110	Dominican Republic	57.63
111	Iran, Islamic Republic of	57.49
112	Nicaragua	57.01
113	Sao Tome and Principe	56.99
114	Samoa	55.34
115	China	54.69
116	Honduras	54.35
117	Uzbekistan	54.12
118	Colombia	53.41
119	Georgia	51.26
120	Djibouti	49.31
121	Ecuador	49.21
122	Tonga	48.84
123	Somalia	48.65
124	Thailand	47.90
125	Albania	47.64
126	Peru	47.40
127	Viet Nam	47.03
128	Bangladesh	46.61
129	Yemen	46.20
130	Indonesia	45.95
131	Cambodia	43.65
132	Pakistan	42.89
133	Comoros	42.52
134	Mauritania	42.46
135	Moldova, Republic of	40.99
136	Vanuatu	39.83
137	Armenia	39.09
138	Malawi	38.37
139	Solomon Islands	35.62
140	Myanmar	35.08
141	Kenya	34.75
142	Angola	34.50
143	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	32.54
144	Azerbaijan	32.45
145	Gambia	30.76
146	Cameroon	30.51
147	Senegal	30.43
148	Bhutan	29.29
149	Ghana	28.83
150	Zimbabwe	28.51
151	South Sudan	27.86
152	Zambia	26.20
153	Timor-Leste	25.75
154	Côte d'Ivoire	25.63
155	Burkina Faso	24.72
156	Haiti	24.56
157	Congo	24.38
158	India	23.87
159	Eritrea	23.70
160	Lao People's Democratic Republic	22.53
161	Papua New Guinea	21.70
162	Guinea-Bissau	21.68
163	Liberia	20.97
164	Nepal	19.84
165	Uganda	18.56
166	Afghanistan	18.28
167	Guinea	18.12
168	Togo	17.87
169	Nigeria	15.27
170	Burundi	15.24
171	Mozambique	14.94
172	Ethiopia	14.91
173	Mali	14.57
174	Tanzania, United Republic of	14.48
175	Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	13.70
176	Equatorial Guinea	12.70
177	Korea, Democratic People's Republic of	12.02
178	Benin	11.96
179	Madagascar	11.03
180	Sierra Leone	10.54
181	Niger	9.73
182	Chad	8.83
183	Central African Republic	5.46

About This Indicator

Wage and salaried workers (employees) are those workers who hold the type of jobs defined as "paid employment jobs," where the incumbents hold explicit (written or oral) or implicit employment contracts that give them a basic remuneration that is not directly dependent upon the revenue of the unit for which they work.

Data source: World Bank Development Indicators