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Iceland: Wage and salaried workers, total

86.70percent · 2025+4.0% 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 Iceland from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202586.704
202486.661
202384.944
202283.277
202182.973
202084.233
201984.12
201883.883
201783.725
201683.534
201583.34
201483.345
201383.322
201283.296
201183.519
201083.642
200983.894
200883.85
200783.672
200683.429
200583.41
200483.628
200383.62
200283.033
200182.995
200082.807
199982.659
199882.476
199782.593
199682.413
199581.889
199481.554
199381.991
199280.716
199179.776

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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