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India: Wage and salaried workers, total

25.10percent · 2025+22.7% 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 India from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202525.097
202424.606
202323.873
202223.13
202123.346
202022.798
201922.774
201822.215
201721.618
201621.029
201520.46
201419.923
201319.425
201218.945
201117.77
201016.575
200916.421
200816.272
200716.154
200615.972
200515.791
200415.645
200315.511
200215.421
200115.362
200015.304
199915.041
199814.766
199714.525
199614.275
199513.981
199413.711
199313.467
199213.261
199113.039

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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