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China: Wage and salaried workers, total

62.33percent · 2025+6.6% 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 China from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202562.332
202461.95
202361.55
202261.143
202160.733
202060.462
201960.438
201859.966
201759.486
201658.998
201558.492
201457.962
201357.404
201256.809
201156.173
201055.484
200954.758
200854.013
200753.226
200652.414
200551.649
200450.919
200350.206
200249.529
200148.883
200048.27
199947.69
199847.108
199746.499
199645.856
199545.179
199444.483
199343.788
199243.149
199142.581

Source

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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