Global Rankings: Wage Salaried Workers % (2025)

Rank	Country	Value
1	Qatar	99.17
2	Bahrain	97.56
3	Kuwait	96.84
4	Norway	95.13
5	Oman	95.04
6	United Arab Emirates	94.93
7	Saudi Arabia	94.45
8	United States	93.93
9	Russian Federation	93.68
10	Macao	93.24
11	Belarus	93.17
12	Brunei Darussalam	92.73
13	Hong Kong	92.31
14	Denmark	92.09
15	Germany	91.85
16	Japan	90.95
17	Virgin Islands, U.S.	90.93
18	Cyprus	89.83
19	Sweden	89.76
20	Luxembourg	89.66
21	Jordan	88.79
22	Israel	88.66
23	Lithuania	88.50
24	Hungary	88.37
25	Bulgaria	88.20
26	Estonia	87.93
27	Austria	87.80
28	Finland	87.46
29	Puerto Rico	87.39
30	Singapore	87.31
31	Croatia	87.26
32	Canada	87.09
33	United Kingdom	86.85
34	France	86.72
35	Iceland	86.70
36	Ireland	86.63
37	Latvia	86.34
38	Malta	86.10
39	Slovenia	86.04
40	Portugal	85.57
41	Romania	85.54
42	Spain	85.46
43	Belgium	85.41
44	Slovakia	85.13
45	Guam	84.48
46	Czechia	84.28
47	Australia	83.90
48	North Macedonia	83.41
49	Netherlands	83.21
50	Switzerland	83.14
51	Bahamas	82.95
52	New Caledonia	82.86
53	South Africa	82.73
54	Montenegro	82.64
55	Mauritius	82.21
56	French Polynesia	81.80
57	New Zealand	81.59
58	Poland	81.11
59	Barbados	80.45
60	Maldives	79.95
61	Italy	78.88
62	Bosnia and Herzegovina	77.94
63	Suriname	77.53
64	Korea, Republic of	77.33
65	Chile	76.08
66	Cuba	75.10
67	Tunisia	75.06
68	Malaysia	74.63
69	Argentina	74.42
70	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	74.33
71	Trinidad and Tobago	74.28
72	Libya	74.12
73	Kazakhstan	73.87
74	Costa Rica	73.41
75	Saint Lucia	73.26
76	Egypt	73.02
77	Serbia	72.98
78	Equatorial Guinea	72.50
79	Uruguay	72.03
80	Botswana	71.89
81	Türkiye	71.45
82	Algeria	69.80
83	Eswatini	69.78
84	Brazil	69.71
85	Greece	69.54
86	Kyrgyzstan	69.50
87	Mexico	69.15
88	Guyana	68.89
89	Tajikistan	68.74
90	Iraq	68.34
91	Turkmenistan	67.97
92	Gabon	67.61
93	Armenia	66.34
94	Fiji	65.92
95	Belize	64.82
96	El Salvador	64.34
97	Jamaica	64.25
98	Philippines	63.85
99	Namibia	63.46
100	China	62.33
101	Cabo Verde	61.54
102	Lesotho	61.48
103	Guatemala	60.92
104	Morocco	59.94
105	Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of	59.58
106	Rwanda	59.55
107	Panama	59.42
108	Mongolia	58.82
109	Paraguay	58.75
110	Tonga	58.21
111	Sri Lanka	57.93
112	Dominican Republic	57.90
113	Syrian Arab Republic	57.56
114	Iran, Islamic Republic of	57.06
115	Sao Tome and Principe	56.01
116	Honduras	55.89
117	Nicaragua	55.73
118	Samoa	55.49
119	Uzbekistan	54.56
120	Colombia	54.36
121	Georgia	53.93
122	Albania	49.72
123	Thailand	49.30
124	Djibouti	48.88
125	Peru	48.65
126	Somalia	47.82
127	Ecuador	47.67
128	Eritrea	47.63
129	Yemen	47.36
130	Indonesia	46.66
131	Viet Nam	46.65
132	Cambodia	44.48
133	Pakistan	43.00
134	Mauritania	42.55
135	Comoros	42.10
136	Moldova, Republic of	41.22
137	Vanuatu	39.38
138	Bangladesh	38.96
139	Malawi	38.74
140	Korea, Democratic People's Republic of	37.95
141	Senegal	35.68
142	Kenya	35.20
143	Myanmar	34.53
144	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	33.73
145	Azerbaijan	33.02
146	Ghana	32.54
147	Gambia	31.39
148	Cameroon	30.72
149	Bhutan	30.49
150	Solomon Islands	30.06
151	Zimbabwe	29.22
152	Côte d'Ivoire	29.03
153	Zambia	28.27
154	Timor-Leste	25.14
155	India	25.10
156	Guinea-Bissau	24.53
157	Angola	24.10
158	Mali	23.65
159	Togo	23.38
160	Congo	23.24
161	Haiti	23.17
162	Lao People's Democratic Republic	22.86
163	Liberia	21.66
164	Nepal	21.42
165	Papua New Guinea	21.33
166	Benin	20.17
167	Uganda	19.47
168	Guinea	18.05
169	Burkina Faso	17.40
170	Afghanistan	16.60
171	Ethiopia	15.69
172	Burundi	15.15
173	Congo, The Democratic Republic of the	14.92
174	Mozambique	14.69
175	Tanzania, United Republic of	14.66
176	Central African Republic	14.60
177	Nigeria	13.85
178	Madagascar	11.68
179	Sierra Leone	11.19
180	Niger	10.52
181	Chad	8.44

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