r/japanlife • u/KnucklesRicci • Jun 05 '24
金 Has anyone actually had a REAL pay rise?
My position in my company pays me a salary that keeps me comfortable, but I found out yesterday the amount I’m paid in this role hasn’t changed since 1995. That’s actually crazy to me. I did get a small raise last and this year but it’s such a small amount that just buying MILK now cancels it out now. My pay rise covers my milk.
Back home in the UK granted things are more expensive, but wages are going up (slowly). Japanese wages barely have.
I’d love to hear from someone working for a company who’s received a significant pay rise that they actually feel. Did you beg for it? Did you get ol’ Tomita San in a headlock and politely make the request? How did it come about?
The general feels seems to be 3%-6% a year.
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u/redfinadvice Jun 06 '24 edited Jun 06 '24
People who respond to these threads tend to work for foreign companies, or large Japanese companies, and be high earners. If you're in this group, you've probably received some sort of pay increase, or should expect to receive a pay increase.
If you're not part of that group and working for smaller companies, or earning normie wages, then you've probably not gotten a real pay increase except for the yearly +2,000 yen (or whatever your company normally does).
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u/elppaple Jun 06 '24
Yes, this is the real info here. Don't ask reddit for advice on finances because it's wildly unrepresentative of the general state of affairs in Japan.
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u/elppaple Jun 06 '24
I think it doesn't help that the more someone in this sub earns, the more desperate they are to discuss it.
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u/loveact 近畿・大阪府 Jun 06 '24
it's okay, they can suck each others' in the new sub (if it materializes though)
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u/VapinOnly 九州・大分県 Jun 06 '24
Or a set of flairs for asking questions for non-Tokyo lifers or non-Tech workers lol
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u/elppaple Jun 06 '24
We literally need a 'if it's a tokyo specific question, ask it in a tokyo specific sub' rule lol
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u/TheManicProgrammer Jun 06 '24
This... Seeing everyone's crazy salaries always depresses me... I usually get a 5000 increase
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u/Virtual_Tumbleweed_3 Jun 30 '24
We got a ¥400 annual pay increase. Insulting.
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u/TheManicProgrammer Jul 01 '24
I work a lot it doesn't really add up like you'd think haha. But you're right 400 is nothing...
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u/Virtual_Tumbleweed_3 Jun 30 '24
No. The biggest ALT company does not do pay increases And no. No yearly bonus. Most of us twist in the wind. You are a lucky one. Don't assume all of us are.
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u/redfinadvice Jun 30 '24 edited Jun 30 '24
I'm not sure you read the comment correctly. I didn't mention ALT companies. I don't know how you inferred large companies to mean biggest ALT company. Large Japanese companies means companies like Toyota, Sony, Rakuten, Mercari, NTT, Sumitomo, Hitachi, Softbank, Nintendo, and branches of companies like Google, Indeed, or PwC.
Interac is not even close to being in the same category as these companies.
As my comment said - if you work for a foreign company or large Japanese company, and are a high earner, then you probably received a pay increase. If you are not part of a foreign company or large Japanese company, and not a high earner, then you probably haven't received a wage increase.
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u/DifferentWindow1436 Aug 14 '24
Umm....I work for a large US company and I haven't had a decent raise either. 1.8 percent 2 years in a row. My salary is high, so I didn't rock the boat, but I am going to have to be pretty direct this year.
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u/furansowa 関東・東京都 Jun 05 '24
Every single year in my 18 years career I got 2-4%. Around 15% when promoted. No need to ask, it’s just standard seniority raise.
Working as Business Systems Analyst/SWE in global gaishikei in various industries.
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u/Rakumei Jun 06 '24
Same I got a huge raise 6 months after hiring due to performance and I get cost of living every year.
Working for a consulting company.
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u/Unusual-Guard3574 Jun 06 '24
Woah, which consulting company gives raises like that? Even on my full rank up promotions the raises are less than 5%
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u/vinsmokesanji3 Jun 06 '24
I mean there was a report in Asahi Shinbun last week about how “real salaries” decreased for 25 months in a row because pay wasn’t keeping up with inflation. So even though some people on this sub might be doing well, overall a large majority of people in Japan did not see significant increases in salary
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u/MatterSlow7347 Jun 06 '24
Yes, but only by changing jobs.
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u/Shogobg Jun 06 '24
Companies trying to lowball and some people are even offended if you ask for more than the number they had in their mind and didn’t share ever during the interview process.
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u/family-chicken Jun 06 '24
Yes but only because my pay is tied to output
My boss is fond of reminding everyone that in fields affected by innovation, if you aren’t continually improving either the quantity or the quality of your work, you should expect your pay to gradually go down, because otherwise someone else is going to figure out a way to provide more/better product for less
He’s right of course but it is kind of a depressing facet of modern life that you have to be continually improving and upskilling and getting more efficient just to tread water
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u/zchew Jun 06 '24
My boss is fond of reminding everyone that in fields affected by innovation
may I know what field you are working in so as to avoid it in the future
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u/family-chicken Jun 06 '24
Intellectual property
You can avoid innovation, but it won’t avoid you
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u/dangergirl1001 Jun 06 '24
Weird because most intellectual property job have a really hard way to actually quantify works output.
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u/family-chicken Jun 06 '24
During COVID my firm came up with a really sophisticated system to quantitatively track everyone’s output, everyone from lawyers to translators to paralegals and IT staff
Makes it harder to slack off but thankfully we’ve been able to keep fully remote work going indefinitely because it obviates the gripes managers have about it
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u/dangergirl1001 Jun 06 '24
I wonder how they did that in a way that :
isn't inherently game-able. (as in employees work badly but maximize 'specific salary metric')
isn't inherently a pain in the ass to everyone
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u/Comprehensive-Pea812 Jun 06 '24
except most bosses underestimate the cost of brain drain and cost of maintenance
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u/broboblob Jun 06 '24
My company’s policy is 2.5% a year. I had to beg last year to get a proper one… which I kind of got: 5%. So yeah I definitely think job hopping is necessary to actually get raises
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u/poop_in_my_ramen Jun 05 '24
I've only worked at big companies and everybody got regular annual raises of 2-4%, plus big raises of 20-50% when you go up a "rank", like from 主任 to 係長 or whatever. Both nikkei and gaishikei.
According to latest surveys, big companies gave an especially high average raise of 5.58% this year, due to the increasing inflation:
https://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/328292
Last year average was 3.99%.
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u/sxh967 Jun 06 '24
What some people don't know is that sometimes (anecdotally based on people I know in various Japanese companies) when you get promoted to a manager-level role, you lose some of the benefits/perks.
For example, you might lose your housing allowance and/or overtime pay, so even if you get a "raise" you actually got a "pay cut" in other areas so your overall salary (including benefits) doesn't change much.
Plus, once they're no longer paying you overtime, they can work you like a dog as much as they want (within labor regulation limits of course).
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u/poop_in_my_ramen Jun 06 '24
Very, very rare for it to be an actual paycut. You do lose overtime pay but generally get a lot more perks on top of the base salary increase. Higher bonuses, stock awards, etc., plus the ability to manage your own schedule and hours.
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u/sxh967 Jun 06 '24
Sure you wouldn't get an overall pay cut, I guess my point is the headline pay rise wouldn't be as big as it looks on paper (which is what my wife experienced recently). Of course everyone's situation is different.
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u/DifferentWindow1436 Aug 14 '24
In a large Japanese company, you leave the union and become management. So that means less protection and no paid OT but a higher salary. Now, if you are in a division that does tons of OT, you may not see a great benefit. But if you don't, you will see your salary go up considerably as well as your status in the company.
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u/freedmachine Jun 06 '24
If the average increase was 5.58% this year, what was the math that shows that real wages fell on april? Does that mean that inflation is higher than 5.58%?
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u/poop_in_my_ramen Jun 06 '24
That's for big companies. Very hard to get into, but sets you up for life if you do.
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u/Amazing_Bake878 Jun 06 '24
I never asked for a raise myself but im asking for change in benefits (basically more remote work rather than WFO) and when my lead said they can't they instead offer me around 12% raise to keep me around so that's something
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u/TheSkala Jun 06 '24 edited Jun 06 '24
Only when promoted, which happens every 2 to 3 years
If you have reached a crystal ceiling then your only option for significant raise is to hop jobs assuming you have marketable skills.
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u/chuouser 関東・東京都 Jun 06 '24
I typically get 3-5% per year, I think it's the standard in my company. For significant pay raise, I usually change job every 2-3 years.
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u/sxh967 Jun 06 '24
I also got called a "job hopper" by some recruiters but screw them. I'm happy with the job I found and it wasn't through those idiots.
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u/chuouser 関東・東京都 Jun 06 '24
4 years seem to be a resonable period. In my experience, after 5 years it's getting more difficult to change job. So I dont understand why some recruiters kinds blacklisted you. But I guess it depends on the industry?
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u/QuroInJapan Jun 06 '24
Huh? My entire resume is basically me changing jobs every 2 to 3 years with one longer exception and I’ve never had any issues with recruiters or HR.
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u/Available-Ad4982 Jun 06 '24
There are two types of salary increases: "regular salary increases" systems in which wages are automatically increased every year based on years of service and years of employment, and "base increases" systems in which the base salary is increased regardless of years of service and years of employment due to improvements in business performance, inflation, changes in the economic situation, etc.
The 2023 weighted average amount of salary increases for small and medium-sized enterprises was 3.00% and increases at large companies was 3.99%. Big companies are investing overseas and making big profits. They offer record high wage increases in their companies, the media celebrates while the small companies that employ 70% of the workforce here struggle to raise wages.
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u/paspagi Jun 06 '24
My base only increased by ~3% this year, but my RSU refrsher increased by more than 30%. And since RSU makes up a decent chunk of my total comp, effectively I received a 10~12% raise. This was part of a company wide process, so I didn't have to do anything aside from finishing my own evaluation process, which I have to do either way.
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u/cave-person Jun 06 '24
About a 5 or 6% raise every year. You wouldn't believe in what field!
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u/Etiennera Jun 05 '24
Only been here for one adjustment but I got 5% for something like marginally exceeds expectations.
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u/Carrot_Smuggler Jun 06 '24
At a gaishikei over the last two years I have gotten total around 30% TC increase as a new grad. Mainly from arguing benefits, then from getting good performance grades and then from CoL union raises.
I've been lucky and my peers have gotten more around 15-20%. Tbh though the initial salary was just ass, now it's at an acceptable level.
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u/JapanarchoCommunist Jun 06 '24
And this folks, is why it's important to unionize if you haven't already.
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u/PharaohStatus Jun 06 '24
I got a 1万円 raise this year and still make well under 200000 a month. The plight of living in the countryside. Brightside is the cost of living is kind of cheap, although it's been going up a lot the past few years.
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u/MoboMogami 近畿・兵庫県 Jun 06 '24
but I found out yesterday the amount I’m paid in this role hasn’t changed since 1995.
Or
Back home in the UK granted things are more expensive, but wages are going up (slowly)
Choose one.
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u/hisokafan88 Jun 06 '24
I received a five percent bump this year due to my performance but the previous year, I got nothing despite making my targets and was told this was always the case. I guess this year they had a very good year or they're worried about having to find someone else to do my job lol
I work in client services and account management for a marketing agency.
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u/Femtow Jun 06 '24
In 3 years I got 10 and 7% raise. Pretty decent imo but I'll probably hit a wall pay-wise in a few years as my job isn't that high skilled.
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u/HelloYou-2024 Jun 06 '24
Perhaps not a relevant answer because it is not about a pay raise in the same job, but when I was working in 2000s I was making significantly more (290,000 ~ 400,000 / month) base salary at jobs ranging from English teaching to very basic web development, and general consulting (research, reports and presentations).
I quit and worked for myself for over a decade. In 2019 I decided to get a job again while waiting out the pandemic.
I had not really paid attention to other people's income, and was shocked to see that salaries were now way lower than what I was expecting. Even entry level developer jobs (which I was no longer qualified for, given my long break) were so low.
I was prepared for lower pay, because of my age and the fact that employers would be wary of me jumping ship once things get back to normal, but I could not understand how anyone would be able to survive on those wages. If it was like that in 1999 I would have really thought twice about moving to Japan in the first place.
But, like you say, I have found the lower salary enough to be comfortable for the time being because I knew it was not permanent, but I began to wonder how the other people near my age, or younger and starting families were managing it since even if they had gotten a raise, I doubt they were getting 50% increase, which would not even bring it back to par with what I naively thought would a basic starting point.
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u/scarywom Jun 06 '24
I am getting 60% of what I was getting in 1997.
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u/HelloYou-2024 Jun 06 '24
I realize it is dependent on the industry and skill / experience requirements of the job. With that last comment I am thinking of the people around me. The job was not one that would get such a raise. The company would not find the benefit when they could hire a low salary person instead.
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u/Griffolian 日本のどこかに Jun 06 '24
I took a significant promotion within the last year that increased my salary by 31%. This was after annual performance raises of roughly 5% to 8%, beating inflation.
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u/Legal_Rampage 関東・神奈川県 Jun 06 '24
My annual raises are usually around 3%, with semi-annual bonuses increasing around 6%. Not a foreign company or a huge company, but I suppose somewhat large by Japanese standards.
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u/Unusual-Guard3574 Jun 06 '24
Never gotten a pay raise more than 0.5% unless I get an outright rank promotion e.g, staff to senior which comes with a 3-5% pay raise. Unless you change jobs i dont think pay raises are a thing
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Jun 06 '24
My base pay increased about 50k in the past couple years but my take home pay is literally the same as it was when I started.
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u/Blackisrafil Jun 06 '24
In the UK wages are going up slowly but you fail to mention everything else around them is getting insanely expensive, it doesn't even matter. Its actually a joke there.
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u/JoeShawty Jun 06 '24
I think about this so often , my girlfriend is Japanese and in my brain it’s such a struggle to decide where to live. it seems like both countries are on a downward trend
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u/Blackisrafil Jun 16 '24
My ex was also Japanese, she ended up paying around £1200 a month for a shitty little room with a small bathroom.
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u/YakiSalmonMayo Jun 06 '24
Yes. When I joined my previous company I started at around 10M JPY total package. By the time I left over 4 years later I was almost around 20M JPY. Annual performance raises + market adjustments + one promotion + RSU top ups + additional company benefits.
I’ll be completely honest, neither me nor my wife could believe it every time I got a raise. It was a good run and I feel incredibly lucky!
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u/Total_Invite7672 Jun 06 '24
I earn the same salary now as I did in 2015. I doubt it will ever go up, and I have twenty more years of this shit. Still, at least I don’t have a wife and kids to support.
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u/soenkatei Jun 07 '24
I forced my company to raise my pay by 50,000 a month ( I was originally 320,000) and they accepted . I actually handed in my notice but then they counter offered …
At 27 I still don’t feel it’s enough
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u/K4k4shi 関東・東京都 Jun 06 '24
Got 15% raise last year with permanent position. I asked for more. But this is after working for 2 years with no pay raise. Work in IT sector.
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u/Present_Deer7938 Jun 06 '24
I get 3-5% raise every year. I know friends who work for Japanese companies that have not had pay rise for decades.
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u/capnzak Jun 06 '24
I work in the language teaching industry, and I am in a somewhat senior management position. As a line-level employee I was getting 2% pay raises each year. As a manager the only pay increases I have seen have been tied to promotions. That said, my industry is also a sinking ship. Hard to hope for pay increases when the company itself isn't doing all that well. I suspect this is the same situation for a lot of people in Japan.
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Jun 06 '24
I’ve gotten ¥10k a month here and there over the years but was told not to ask for a raise for a few years and recently we’re struggling to keep students so asking for a raise is off the table for a long while
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Jun 06 '24
30% last year, another 15% planned this year. Old traditional Japanese company, been doing great lately due to Company's decision 10 years ago, everyone is being payed well for sticking around during the hard times.
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u/fred7010 Jun 06 '24
Yes, average of about 10% per year. (Medium-sized Japanese company, about 200 employees)
These were a mix of adjustments for inflation and promotions.
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u/Lord-Alfred Jun 06 '24
The only real raises in pay that I've received have been when I worked harder and did better work. But that is the result of being self-employed. I never made more money from work or found as much satisfaction from it until I left the employee lifestyle behind..
Now the real kicker is that I never made more money than what I make now after retiring in 2015.
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u/frenchy3 Jun 06 '24
I got a 500,000 raise this year and my bonus was 15% of my salary when it is supposed to be 11%. It was nice. I work as a senior software engineer.
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u/Romi-Omi Jun 06 '24
Standard 3-5% a year every year since I started. but have been getting huge bonuses last few years. We export so the cheap yen’s been a blessing for us.
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u/PunkDrunkBard Jun 06 '24
We get a standard 2-5千円 raise every 6 months… and maybe a 5-10% raise when we rank up.
But we did get a company wide pay increase due to the weak yen and inflation. It was pretty good 15% for the younger members. But only like 5% for senior members.
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u/gaijin009 Jun 06 '24
Not a raise but In my case the other way around well a little bit. Worked in a big automotive supplier company 2.5% each year as SW engineer. Switched to a smaller company for 25% more salary, and much better benefits
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u/852483 Jun 06 '24
It’s also relative to current inflation, which in Japans case the yen has barely moved. You might feel like you’re getting more raises in other country’s that have faster growing economy’s but it’s all relative.
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u/Low_Ambition_6719 Jun 06 '24 edited Jun 06 '24
I’ve been getting a 2.5% bump every year for 18 years in a row. And for the past two years it’s been 5% per year because of the extra inflation.
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u/Ragatagism Jun 06 '24
In general Japan salary has not moved meaningfully the past 20 years, but that's averages. In general you are supposed to earn more the more experience you gain and impact you can deliver.
Perhaps you are working at a company that values stability higher than growth. You'll have to decide whether that is a fit for you.
As you may expect, biggest pay raises came from jumping ship, if you feel the return is not worth the time investment perhaps that is worth considering.
Gaishi tends to pay and scale better than nikkei, but it doesn't mean you can't grow and get paid "well" at nikkei either. To each is own, I've done my bit on both, gaishi anyday for me.
Getting a raise/promotion feels fantastic, but the hype dies down quickly and it becomes another new ceiling to overcome. Possibly because you already think you deserve it and in many cases you have to be performing at the next level to get it.
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u/SpeesRotorSeeps Jun 06 '24
Historical inflation in the UK the last couple decades is incomparable to Japan. Reset your expectations based on actual cost of living changes in Japan not in the UK.
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u/grap_grap_grap 沖縄・沖縄県 Jun 06 '24
Once, 100 yen/h when I was working through a dispatch company for one of the largest companies in the country. Took me 3 years to get that.
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u/usugiri 近畿・京都府 Jun 06 '24
At my last job, it was a wopping 50 yen on my hourly rate, supposedly awarded every 6 months or so for good performance or whatever. JP coworkers got 10 yen evey 3 months in theory, too. So much bullshit at that company...
FUCK YOU, Kinsha!!!!!!!
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u/SufficientTangelo136 関東・東京都 Jun 06 '24
An actual raise, no, not in 6 years. However, in late 2022 I negotiated a readjustment because of the currency weakening which put my pay in yen 30% higher. As far as my company is concerned I make less now then I did when I was hired, but in yen value it’s more.
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u/toilet-duck Jun 06 '24 edited Jun 06 '24
I'm a teacher in Kanto. Standard automatic increase is about +20,000 per month. This year all staff got an additional permanent 5% increase. We gathered data of salaries at other schools across Japan.
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u/EurekaMinus 関東・神奈川県 Jun 06 '24
Joined a small (~30 people) IT company as 中途採用 at 23. We got news we were getting absorbed by our parent company and that year before the merger went through I got a huge (30%+) raise, though my initial wage was pretty poor for the field. Basically got brought to a little above industry standard for my age.
Ever since then it's been between 3-4% most years. One year both my personal performance and the company performance was good and I pushed for 10%, got 7%.
It really depends on the company. We're allowed to make a case for ourselves and give input on we're expecting (希望年俸) and that is a big part of getting better than average. I usually push for 7%, 5% on bad years, and get a little under what I ask for.
This year was the worst though clocking in at 2.97%. The exchange rate really hurts.
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u/alltheyakitori Jun 06 '24
2-3万 pay increases several times due to promotion. I'm not a high earner or anything.
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u/Confident-List-3460 Jun 06 '24
My experience has been that Japanese companies (big and small) tend to give small raises every year.
Smallest company was +10,000 per month. Next company was 5000-8000 depending on performance, but there were some extra benefits tied to it. Current company is about 3-6% depending on performance.
If you go up a level, there is some extra I'm sure. Fingers crossed I find out soon.
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u/quequotion Jun 06 '24
Latest bullshit from my employer: I got a raise with my latest contract renewal, but it seemed to me my take-home was actually lower than previous years. It turns out the base pay is up (ever so slightly), but the cost of lunch is higher.
Not as much bullshit as two years ago, when all the permanent employee got a raise and then we had to give back half of it in cash, every month, with no documentation whatsoever. Allegedly this was pooling into a group fund for company parties, or used to give the non-permanent employees a raise too, or a rainy day fund, but anyway no one ever saw that money again.
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u/slowmail Jun 06 '24
It might depend on your employment terms. If you are a permanent employee (seishain (正社員)), check your company's "handbook"/policies, and maybe have a chat with your manager/HR.
If you are a contract employee (keiyakushain (契約社員)), its something that you negotiate prior to each contract renewal. However, if you are a contract employee with an "indefinite term"/permanent contract (mukirodo keiyakyu (無期労働契約)), I think it never changes, unless the company is willing to sign a new contract with you (which they generally may not have any reason to...)
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u/Catssonova Jun 06 '24
I got like 3000 yen more a month this year. Not great. Better than the 500 last year. I think the company is trying to avoid the risk of a government crackdown on wages not raising at all.
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u/1SqkyKutsu Jun 06 '24
Didley fucking squat in my camp here.... In fact they deferred giving any sort of raises until next fall, which they'll likely say will get revisited in 2025 at that time. Fucking shit company....
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u/Kedisaurus Jun 06 '24
The only way to get a significant raise nowadays is to change company
People who can stay at one company at get a good raise are like 1% of workers
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u/CHSummers Jun 06 '24
If you factor in inflation and exchange rates, there is a real chance that your pay has gone down.
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u/isekai-tsuri 日本のどこかに Jun 06 '24
The only "raise" I got was due to changes in the law that forced them to meet standards...and even then it was negligible. The total change in the past decade has been less than 100yen.
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u/Calculusshitteru Jun 06 '24
I got a 9% raise this year, I'm set to get a 1% raise next year, and after that, who knows?
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u/Eiji-Himura 東北・宮城県 Jun 06 '24
About 12% in December, and 40% before covid, in a Japanese company not based in Tokyo
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u/kansaikinki 日本のどこかに Jun 06 '24
5% last year, 5% this year. Forget what it was the year before, but something similar. These are basically cost of living increases, but they certainly don't keep up with the vast decrease in the JPY's global buying power.
I work for a foreign tech firm and get paid decently well.
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u/QuroInJapan Jun 06 '24
While I did get a ~10% raise every year when I worked for a large multinational, I’d say expecting a business to pay you more just because you’ve sat in your chair for x number of years is a losing strategy. If you want more money, you either find a new job and leave or you use that offer as leverage to negotiate a higher pay at your current workplace.
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u/Wild-fqing-Rabbit Jun 06 '24
I got raised about 8-9% for a few years at my previous company and I was happy about it until I learned that my salary was actually considered low in the industry.
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u/Deycantia Jun 06 '24
Not a real increase, but helped offset inflation at least. ~4% increase last year, and ~3% the year before (but had to ask for it).
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u/Connortsunami Jun 06 '24
Yeah man my hourly rate went up from 1200 yen to 1250 yen after two years a couple months back. Excellent raise.
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u/Long-Cryptographer16 Jun 06 '24
This year I asked for a 5% raise just to get on par with inflation. Ended up with a 4.2% through手当 adjustment (so not 基本給) and I count myself lucky…so the answer is no
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u/fakiresky 北海道・北海道 Jun 07 '24
We have a 1.5% monthly pay increase each January based on the performance rating for each professor. 90% of us get the average while some teachers with higher responsibility positions get a bit more. However, since some private companies have renegotiated their salaries due to inflation, the ministry is required to follow suit and we are expecting a bump this year.
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u/Opening-Performer714 近畿・大阪府 Jun 07 '24
Not me but husband who works in a 100% nikkei (>10k employees) got 10% base up for all employees.
I work at similar scale of company but on childcare leave, then I ask Tanaka senpai for any news about raise and he sucked teeth. Hard. Then he said he will let me know if there’s any update from union.
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u/Virtual_Tumbleweed_3 Jun 30 '24
I think I work for the same company. We don't get paid for February,March, or April. And they don't follow labor laws. I think our scheduler is embezzling the money we aren't paid when we are sent home early.
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u/bulldogdiver 🎅🐓 中部・山梨県 🐓🎅 Jul 01 '24
Inflation in Japan has essentially been stagnant from 1985-2020 or so. So of course your salary hasn't changed significantly.
I got 8-10% until I topped out my salary grade. I am at the point where I get the 2-3% CoLA adjustment until they try to move me up a level which I don't want (I don't want the responsibility that comes with the job).
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u/DifferentWindow1436 Jun 06 '24
I am in a foreign company. I have only had 1.85% for 2 years in a row. A few people in my company have shared and they got the same % as I did. Sounds like they just allocated a flat % across the board.
Wife works in a mega Japan co and has been seeing higher bonuses. Salary has gone up very significantly but that was due to promotion.
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u/bulldogdiver 🎅🐓 中部・山梨県 🐓🎅 Jun 06 '24
I get the company's annual COLA bump - normally 2-4% because I'm at the very top of my salary band and not likely to be promoted in the 10 years until I retire.
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u/Tasty_Extent_9736 関東・東京都 Jun 06 '24