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Japan: Wage and salaried workers, total

90.95percent · 2025+2.0% 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 Japan from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202590.949
202490.751
202390.497
202290.457
202189.648
202090.119
201990.068
201889.837
201789.711
201689.535
201589.136
201488.775
201388.655
201288.424
201188.313
201087.894
200987.55
200887.186
200786.862
200686.443
200585.66
200485.331
200385.226
200284.998
200184.564
200083.891
199983.308
199882.997
199782.124
199681.96
199581.415
199481.047
199380.558
199279.444
199178.453

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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