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Malaysia: Wage and salaried workers, total

74.63percent · 2025+1.7% 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 Malaysia from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202574.63
202474.507
202374.384
202274.29
202174.192
202074.04
201974.024
201873.852
201773.694
201673.517
201573.351
201473.196
201373.053
201272.943
201172.859
201072.744
200972.646
200872.552
200772.261
200671.945
200571.654
200471.385
200371.126
200270.899
200170.686
200070.498
199970.219
199870.162
199770.032
199669.694
199569.324
199468.945
199368.557
199268.167
199167.8

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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