Basic Salary in Japan

i need help here. i want to know how much is the basic monthly salary of an ordinary Staff in Japan. Thank you.

The nationwide average is around 35,000 yen per month. Of course, it differs widely on position and job type.

Uji - were u missing a zero off the end there or does your suggested average include the entire population (so little kids, retirees, etc)and therefore true national average not just the average wage of the working Japanese?

Part timer at a rural super market; 750yen/hour

35000 yen doesn't seem right, that would be pretty much impossible to live on. however it's almost right if you are thinking in US dollars.

the CIA factbook lists Japan's average wage at around 29-33 thousand dollars per year. I would agree with that assessment. Most people working at companies in big cities are making between 250,000 and 450,000yen per month.

People working at supermarkets and other small shops (Students, housewives, etc) generally make under 1000yen per hour but are also usually just part time employees.

Here is a study from 2005 that may help answer the question:

http://www.worldsalaries.org/japan.shtml


I think Uji just missed a zero.

I was googling for the same question recently.

One of the options is to check official information from Japan government:

http://www.mhlw.go.jp/english/database/db-l/20/2011re/m...
http://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/handbook/c12cont.htm...

You can also check some independent salary surveys, they look a bit different, and, kinda, more readable :)

http://www.michaelpage.co.jp/ContentArticle/page/7231/t...
http://www.michaelpage.co.jp/pdf/JP_SS_FULL.pdf full survey
http://www.michaelpage.co.jp/pdf/6924_TECH_SS.pdf IT survey

http://www.robertwalters.com/global_salarysurvey.do
http://www.robertwalters.com/resources/salarysurvey/Jap...

Both show salaries before taxes as I understood.

talking about a basic salary is irrelevant without also talking about basic living expenses. Before moving to North America I had a low salary but the rent for my 3 bedroom home with a garden was 1 /10th of the salary. My first salary in North America was 3 times higher but the rent for a similar house was more than the salary. Even a small studio was 40 % of the salary.

Like most things... cost of living varies greatly with where you choose to live. Housing in more rural areas and even on the outskirts of smaller cities outside of Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama is comparable to apartment rates in the United States (5-6 man a month) though the rooms are, on average, much smaller than you would find in the United States or Canada for the price.

My current income is roughly equivalent to USD 33,000 a year. I have a 1 bedroom/living/kitchen-dining apartment with a brand new bathroom and parking for 550/mo.

Depending on the job you find, housing may be supplied for you free of charge or subsidized (though this is getting rarer as the recession deepens).

In Japan you also don't need to worry much about medical costs, as the national health insurance system is pretty awesome :) Additional insurance may be offered through your employer.

Quite a few foreign workers also suppliment their income with private eikaiwa, usually under the table. Going rate for an hour is about 3,000/hr for private lessons and 5,000/hr for group ones but some people charge more. You can pick up quite a lot of extra cash this way if you are enterprising and not adverse to spending the bulk of your Sunday mornings in Starbucks talking about baseball and the weather.

Generally speaking, the choice to live in the country, if you're entering into a career which allows you to do that, will affect how far your salary goes and how much of it you'll be able to save every month.