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👷 Wage and salaried workers, male

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.

📅 2025📏 %181 entries
99.3% – 83.1%83.0% – 71.9%71.3% – 57.8%57.1% – 39.0%38.2% – 11.9%No data
1
🇶🇦Qatar
99.3%
2
🇧🇭Bahrain
97.8%
3
🇰🇼Kuwait
96.3%
4
🇴🇲Oman
95.3%
5
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates
95.0%
6
🇸🇦Saudi Arabia
94.7%
7
🇳🇴Norway
93.8%
8
🇧🇳Brunei
93.7%
9
🇧🇾Belarus
93.0%
10
🇷🇺Russia
93.0%
11
🇺🇸United States
92.0%
12
🇲🇴Macau
90.6%
13
🇩🇰Denmark
90.1%
14
🇩🇪Germany
89.9%
15
🇯🇵Japan
89.7%
16
🇱🇺Luxembourg
89.2%
17
🇭🇰Hong Kong
89.1%
18
🇨🇾Cyprus
88.2%
19
🇻🇮United States Virgin Islands
88.2%
20
🇯🇴Jordan
87.1%
21
🇸🇪Sweden
86.2%
22
🇭🇺Hungary
85.9%
23
🇮🇱Israel
85.8%
24
🇧🇬Bulgaria
85.7%
25
🇱🇹Lithuania
85.6%
26
🇦🇹Austria
85.5%
27
🇨🇦Canada
84.7%
28
🇫🇷France
84.4%
29
🇱🇻Latvia
84.1%
30
🇬🇧United Kingdom
83.8%
31
🇸🇬Singapore
83.8%
32
🇪🇪Estonia
83.5%
33
🇲🇻Maldives
83.5%
34
🇭🇷Croatia
83.4%
35
🇫🇮Finland
83.4%
36
🇵🇷Puerto Rico
83.3%
37
🇲🇹Malta
83.1%
38
🇷🇴Romania
83.0%
39
🇮🇸Iceland
82.8%
40
🇸🇮Slovenia
82.7%
41
🇬🇺Guam
82.6%
42
🇵🇹Portugal
82.5%
43
🇪🇸Spain
82.5%
44
🇧🇪Belgium
82.3%
45
🇮🇪Ireland
81.7%
46
🇨🇭Switzerland
81.5%
47
🇨🇿Czechia
80.7%
48
🇿🇦South Africa
80.6%
49
🇦🇺Australia
80.5%
50
🇧🇦Bosnia and Herzegovina
80.4%

Highlights

As of 2025, Qatar ranks first with 99.3%, followed by Bahrain (97.8%) and Kuwait (96.3%).

Across 181 countries and territories, values run from 99.3% (Qatar) to 11.9% (Chad), with a median of 67.4%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 7 from Asia and 3 from Europe.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Wage and salaried workers, male (% of male employment) (modeled ILO estimate), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Wage and salaried workers, male (% of male employment) (modeled ILO estimate) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026