World Bank · Labor

Ethiopia: Wage and salaried workers, total

15.69percent · 2025+22.6% 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 Ethiopia from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202515.688
202415.371
202315.064
202214.794
202114.519
202014.092
201914.618
201814.201
201713.765
201613.291
201512.793
201412.285
201311.771
201211.403
201111.008
201010.586
200910.172
20089.788
20079.397
20069.052
20058.768
20048.898
20039.01
20029.269
20019.416
20009.523
19999.715
19989.704
19979.706
19969.588
19959.458
19949.452
19939.519
19929.619
19919.931

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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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