Editing Peshawar (section)

=== Employment ===
As a result of large numbers of displaced persons in the city, only 12% of Peshawar's residents were employed in the formalized economy in 2012.<ref name="tribune.com.pk" /> Approximately 41% of residents in 2012 were employed in personal services,<ref name="tribune.com.pk" /> while 55% of Afghan refugees in the city in 2012 were daily wage earners.<ref name="tribune.com.pk" /> By 2016, Pakistan adopted a policy to repatriate Afghan refugees.

Wages for unskilled workers in Peshawar grew on average 9.1% per year between 2002 and 2008.<ref name="SPDC" /> Following the outbreak of widespread Islamist violence in 2007, wages rose only 1.5% between 2008 and 2014.<ref name="SPDC" /> Real wages dropped for some skilled craftsmen during the period between 2008 and 2014.<ref name="SPDC" />