World Bank · Labor

Brazil: Wage and salaried workers, total

69.71percent · 2025+0.3% since 2015

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. Reported as: modeled ILO estimate. Annual figures for Brazil from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202569.706
202469.493
202368.772
202267.873
202166.483
202067.494
201967.784
201868.102
201768.488
201669.102
201569.471
201470.638
201370.531
201270.721
201170.544
201069.745
200968.962
200868.459
200767.427
200666.284
200565.509
200465.618
200365.031
200265.057
200165.179
200064.956
199964.698
199865.285
199765.412
199666.188
199564.788
199464.691
199364.52
199264.559
199164.807

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Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Wage and salaried workers, total. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-wage-and-salaried-workers-total (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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