The average salary for private-sector workers in Japan reached a record high of \u00a54.78 million in 2024, up 3.9% from the previous year, a survey by the National Tax Agency showed Friday.<\/p>\n
The average grew for the fourth consecutive year. The pace of increase exceeded 3% for the first time in 33 years.<\/p>\n
The increase was apparently driven in part by a rise in minimum wages.<\/p>\n
The average salary for men was \u00a55.87 million, up 3.2%, and that of women was \u00a53.33 million, up 5.5%, both marking record highs.<\/p>\n
Regular employees earned an average of \u00a55.45 million, a 2.8% increase, while nonregular employees, including part-time workers, had \u00a52.06 million in average salary, up 2.2%.<\/p>\n
By industry, the highest salaries were found in the electricity, gas and water sector, which saw a 7.4% rise to \u00a58.32 million. Finance and insurance services followed with a 7.7% increase to \u00a57.02 million.<\/p>\n
The least paid were workers in the hotel and restaurant sector, at \u00a52.79 million.<\/p>\n
Total salaries earned by about 61 million private-sector workers climbed 3.7% to \u00a5241.4 trillion, with around \u00a511.2 trillion in income tax withheld.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The average salary for private-sector workers in Japan reached a record high of \u00a54.78 million in 2024, up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,5466,113,61,60,8672,150,22122],"class_list":["post-48155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economic-indicators","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-japanese-economy","tag-jobs","tag-wages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}