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I get a lot of comments asking how much do Japanese people make or Wow?
Japanese people work way too much or they have no lives
So I thought this may be a good time to make a video on how much Japanese people
actually earn as well as their working conditions and I want you guys to let me know in the comments if
Japanese salaries are better or worse
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Obviously there are exceptions to these averages but there's averages in every country. So just to keep everything simple
That's how we'll be doing it
so first of all
Just to give you some background if you don't already know Japan has a third largest GDP in all of the world just behind
us in China
it's pretty considerable at
5.30 six trillion dollars with Japan only having a landmass the size of
California state you would never expect as such a small country to have such a high production rate
But Japan actually does because of that a lot of people may think Japanese people work a lot
In fact a lot of media portray Japanese people having like crazy overtime hours
But the truth is this Japanese work less than you think first of all on average
Japan has less annual work hours heard employed person compared to the US and China
at 17 hundred and 38 hours
So at the end of the day, maybe it's just a bit over exaggerated at how much Japanese people actually work
there is probably something to say about black companies in Japan who don't fully report hours will need to work with the data that we
Have and then when it comes to the minimum wage
Minimum wage in Japan ain't that bad
in fact
Japan has the 11th highest minimum wage in all the world just in front of the US at 7 dollars and
61 cents, but if I were working minimum wage
I would definitely move to Australia and one thing that a lot of people don't consider
Is that Japanese have a lot of days off though? Japan has a whopping
16 of public national holidays per year, which is quite a lot compared to most countries
I mean just looking at this list the US is all the way down to ten
But Tamiya has 21, which is quite a lot
So when people say that Japanese don't have time off or that they're always working living Japan
You almost feel like there's a holiday every month
And you also have a few days that are string together like in Golden Week
But just end of April early May and then you also have like the New Year's holidays
Which is like a few days as well in addition to public holidays
There's also annual paid leap on top of that in Japan by law
You have to have ten days of annual paid leave, which is pretty crazy
Because if you've known me if you've seen my about me video then you know, I've pretty much worked my entire
Career here in Japan. I can always remember taking vacations throughout the year
In fact, I would probably usually take two vacations because I had so many paid vacation days on top of that
I also had time off during the public holidays, so I don't know
I always had that something to look forward to even though I was working as so hard
So now it's time to start getting to the meat of the conversation and talk about actual salaries
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Salary specifics. Do you know what that teachers get paid at $60,000 per year in Japan. That's pretty amazing
But before we get into the specifics of various jobs here in Japan and their salary is probably good to know that the average salary
Here in Japan is a 4.2 million yen, which works out to be about?
$38,000 annually, so let's get to the nitty-gritty
Let me know how this compares to you in your country grocery store cashiers make about twenty three thousand US dollars
annually retail sales are at 30,000 and basic office and computer work jobs averaged about
31,000 ramen store clerks at thirty two thousand and ramen shop managers get bumped up to almost forty nine thousand construction workers thirty four thousand
And just about that
Programmers at thirty eight thousand car mechanics make more at thirty nine thousand and nurses at almost forty four thousand system engineers
fifty-one thousand and then high school teachers at sixty thousand while
Shinkansen drivers are at sixty nine thousand lures averaged close to ninety five thousand and doctors at about one hundred and thirteen thousand and finally
prefectural governors at two hundred and four thousand
Oh
And for those of you who are looking to move to Japan and become an English teacher you're looking at just under thirty thousand US
Dollars per year, but there is one thing that I should probably know
There is a gender discrepancy here in Japan
The average salary for men is about fifty thousand dollars where women get paid on average at?
Twenty-seven thousand dollars annually, and that's a pretty huge discrepancy at least in my eyes. But how does that compare in your country?
so another interesting fact that I came across and all of this research is that the cost of living in Japan isn't very similar to
The u.s. In terms of living costs. Japan is about a four percent cheaper than the US which is not a huge difference
That's almost virtually the same and another thing to note for those of you who are looking to move to Tokyo
I can't dress it up and you get paid more in Tokyo a so much higher here than
Compared to the rest of Japan as I stated earlier
Japan's average annual salary is about thirty thousand US dollars but in Tokyo the average annual salary is
Fifty-seven thousand dollars, that's more than fifty percent the national average
So a lot of those salaries that we are talking about earlier
You can probably consider adding another fifty percent to that if you here in Tokyo, so to bring it all back
What do you guys think about Japanese salaries? And how does it compare to you and your country? Is that better?
Is it worse?
Let me know the comments
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