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Canada: Wage and salaried workers, total

87.09percent · 2025+2.5% 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 Canada from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202587.09
202486.977
202386.82
202286.53
202185.997
202084.839
201985.206
201884.93
201785.133
201685.052
201585.001
201485.002
201384.806
201284.795
201184.66
201084.463
200984.086
200884.612
200784.622
200684.676
200584.39
200484.57
200384.598
200284.799
200184.745
200083.869
199983.049
199882.817
199782.903
199683.8
199584.332
199484.467
199384.279
199284.859
199185.255

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Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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World Bank (2026). Wage and salaried workers, total. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-wage-and-salaried-workers-total (accessed 2026-11-14). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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