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Kenya: Wage and salaried workers, total

35.20percent · 2025-4.4% 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 Kenya from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202535.205
202435.055
202334.745
202234.429
202134.12
202035.645
201937.994
201837.725
201737.405
201637.113
201536.828
201436.534
201336.245
201235.965
201135.675
201035.369
200935.084
200834.852
200734.618
200634.288
200534.038
200433.818
200333.628
200233.533
200133.438
200033.322
199933.173
199833.014
199732.88
199632.789
199532.652
199432.62
199332.586
199232.583
199132.471

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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