White-collar jobs are professional service, desk, managerial, or administrative jobs that are typically performed in an office or other administrative setting. These jobs are known for earning higher average salaries doing highly skilled work, but not by performing manual labor at their jobs. Some examples of white-collar jobs include company management, lawyers, accountants, financial and insurance jobs, consultants, and computer programmers, among many others.

White-collar workers are considered highly educated as compared to blue-collar workers. Unlike blue-collar workers, white-collar workers dont have physically taxing jobs. They tend to make more money than blue-collar workers. White-collar positions are often expected to offer opportunities to advance to more significant roles as managers or executives.

The term "white collar" refers to the white dress shirts of male office workers common through most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Western countries, as opposed to the blue overalls worn by many manual laborers. The term was coined by Upton Sinclair, an American writer, in relation to contemporary clerical, administrative, and management workers during the 1930s.

In contrast to white-collar jobs, blue-collar jobs are those that involve a greater degree of manual labor or skilled trade jobs that often require physical work and are typically associated with industries such as manufacturing, construction, or maintenance.