{"id":845748,"date":"2026-08-06T15:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/845748\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T15:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:44:18","slug":"summer-bonuses-average-record-%c2%a51-04-million-among-major-japan-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/845748\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer bonuses average record \u00a51.04 million among major Japan firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The average summer bonus among major Japanese companies increased 7.04% from the previous year to \u00a51,042,537 in 2026, the highest level since comparable data became available in 1981, the Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren, said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the fifth consecutive year of bonus growth. An official of Keidanren\u2019s labor policy headquarters said that strong wage increases have been spreading.<\/p>\n<p>Especially in the construction sector, which is facing serious labor shortages, the average bonus surged 59.59% to \u00a52,026,633, topping the \u00a52 million mark for the first time in any sector.<\/p>\n<p>The survey covered companies with 500 or more employees. Of the 22 sectors with available data, 17 logged increases.<\/p>\n<p>The average summer bonus rose by 6.23% to a record \u00a51,093,629 among 126 manufacturers and by 8.96% to \u00a5941,145 among 37 nonmanufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>The nonferrous metals industry posted an average of \u00a51,125,131, up 21.64%, reflecting strong demand related to data centers. The food industry logged \u00a51,220,637, up 8.41%.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the average bonus in the machinery metal industry declined 5.49% to \u00a51,163,829.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The average summer bonus among major Japanese companies increased 7.04% from the previous year to \u00a51,042,537 in 2026,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164,416945],"class_list":["post-845748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-keidanren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}