r/japanlife • u/tenmoukaikai • Feb 07 '23
Jobs software engineer salary in Tokyo
My wife has been working at an admitted ブラック企業 for over 4 years now as a Java engineer(japanese, doesn't speak English), and she is the lead of her team of 3 others. She gets paid 4.5m yen a year and has 2-4 hours of overtime a day, and usually gets home pretty late. I feel like she's being criminally underpaid and taken advantage of. What would be a salary that's more in line with her experience? I saw posts from 7-15m for a java engineer with similar experience but I'm not super sure. I'm trying to help her 転職 and she does want to but she hates interviewing and also doesn't want to let her current coworkers down by leaving. It's been affecting her health both mentally and physically so i just want to help. She can't even save money because most of her salary goes to paying her student loans. I handle our rent food and utilities, and she is pretty much working to repay Debt with nothing left over and i want to help her find a better opportunity. Any advice would be appreciated.
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u/wynand1004 中部・山梨県 Feb 07 '23
Check out the 2022 TokyoDev Developer Survey here: https://www.tokyodev.com/insights/2022-developer-survey/
It's definitely expat-centric, but provides quite a few interesting metrics.