World Bank · Labor

Colombia: Wage and salaried workers, total

54.36percent · 2025+3.6% 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 Colombia from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202554.359
202454.252
202353.407
202252.898
202152.619
202052.692
201953.928
201851.979
201752.288
201652.532
201552.485
201452.177
201351.339
201250.414
201149.886
201050.131
200949.874
200851.853
200756.576
200656.198
200557.784
200456.27
200357.034
200256.805
200156.93
200057.12
199957.14
199857.416
199756.911
199656.871
199556.917
199456.393
199356.83
199256.645
199156.544

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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 2026-11-15). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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