Japan News and Discussion
Thursday 31st July, 02:42 PM JST
TOKYO —
Average wages at Japanese companies with at least five employees inched down 0.6% in June from a year before to 463,013 yen for the first year-to-year drop in six months, the government said Thursday. The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry attributed the fall to a 1.5% fall to 192,535 yen in bonus and other special payments.
Of the total wages, scheduled pay, such as basic salary, totaled 251,177 yen, unchanged from a year earlier, the ministry said. Nonscheduled wages such as overtime pay rose 0.1% to 19,301 yen. Overtime hours worked in the manufacturing sector, a key indicator of manufacturing activity, fell 3.7% for the third consecutive monthly drop.
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some14some at 06:11 PM JST - 31st July
Only in Japan, in other asian countries wages are going up. Perhaps that is the reason sales in jpn have been depressed for so many years.
westurn at 09:13 PM JST - 31st July
Why the conflicting data here ? I mean which is it ???
"Average wages at Japanese companies with at least five employees inched down 0.6% in June from a year before to 463,013 yen"
OR:
"Of the total wages, scheduled pay, such as basic salary, totaled 251,177 yen"
So which is it ??? Average monthly salarys are 463,013 yen a month or... 251,177 ???
I mean, is this article trying to say that there are sooooo many companies with less than 5 employees that they drag the national average down from 463,000 to 251,000 ??? How 'bout some clarification out there !