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This is the map and list of Asian countries by monthly average wage (annual divided by 12 months) gross and net income (after taxes) average wages for full-time employees in their local currency and in US Dollar. The chart below reflects the average (mean) wage as reported by various data providers.
The increase in disposable income partly explained the economic boom of the 1980s, which was pushed by explosive domestic demand, as well as a sharp rise in the value of the yen after the Plaza Accord. Japanese income distribution in the 1980s, both before and after taxes, was among the most equitable in the world.
In 1986, the average employee worked 2,097 hours in Japan, compared with 1,828 hours in the United States and 1,702 in France. By 1995, the average annual hours in Japan had decreased to 1,884 and, by 2009, to 1,714. In 2019, the average Japanese employee worked 1,644 hours, lower than workers in Spain, Canada, and Italy.
Wages are rising in Japan more than they have in decades, at least for some workers. In May, the consumer price index was up 3.2% from a year earlier, well above the central bank’s target of ...
The new average national minimum wage was expected to take effect around October 2023. [5] As of early October 2023, the lowest minimum wage in Japan exists in the Iwate Prefecture at ¥893 an hour (6.03 U.S. dollars), while the highest minimum wage is in Tokyo at ¥1,113 an hour (7.51 U.S. dollars). [6]
The wage gap could trace back to the kinds of computer science jobs women work—more likely to be lower-paying than men—but that only accounts for about a third of the gap, the researchers wrote.
"We must seek to raise Japan's minimum wage to around 1,000 yen ($9/hour) from the current average of about 900 yen," he said. ... Japanese policymakers are stepping up calls to raise the country ...
Labor force participation rate (15-64 age) in Japan, by sex [2] Gender wage gap in OECD [7]. Japan is now facing a shortage of labor caused by two major demographic problems: a shrinking population because of a low fertility rate, which was 1.4 per woman in 2009, [8] and replacement of the postwar generation which is the biggest population range [9] who are now around retirement age.