so no most definitely i wouldn't work
for i wouldn't want to work for it
but if i had to i would do what i have
to do to survive so
actually if you lived in the big cities
that would mean you get paid less
and the rent is higher yeah yeah
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foreigners in japan
i'm gonna tell you this is the start if
you graduate university and you start
working at a company in japan
this is the average starting salary how
is that compared like about a thousand
eight hundred dollars how's that
compared to
america huh it's very low that's
insanely low
yes about a fourth of what you could
probably expect in america
or anything in that kind of area of
expertise um it's for those who just
like graduate university and started
working in a business store is that
sales
still should still afford although i'd
say uh
at least unless you don't have any loans
or bills
or pets or anybody to take care of right
yeah that's fine
you're not allowed to have any of those
can you trend
like thinking of like average salary
where you from near shanghai is that
more or less
in shanghai i think the average salary
is
lower than this lower than this yes
right so is this like a quite good
salary for starting one then
yeah i hope i can get 100.
after i graduate graduation yeah
so hopefully that's going to be what
you're going to be getting yeah
how is that compared to salary in
australia
i think it's probably about half what
you would get paid in australia
yeah a month yeah probably around that
yeah
so so when you graduate from university
you'd get double the amount usually
a month yeah probably yeah usually i
think you get about like 60 to 70 000 a
year
so but obviously australian dollar is a
bit lower than the american dollar
yeah yeah it's a lot higher many
starters as well have to put in the
extra work work overtime
you know be there for everyone what do
you think with that salary would you do
that
i guess you have to if it's the only
option but it's
probably not fair compared to what we're
used to in australia i suppose
we're just lazy so oh you say
i agree with that you said that that
would be the salary you'd get as a
starter
is that good or bad in comparison to a
month in comparison to
the uk uh i think it's about the same as
us wouldn't you say about this
if it's 1500 quid i reckon wait as a
starter salary
it's fairly good it's a good starter
salary so like
a graduate job yeah fairly it's good one
that's a good one
yeah yeah i'd say yeah that's better
than uk average
yeah graduate starter salary yeah right
what is the uk average graduate starter
salary 20 000 maybe
a year yeah it could be anything from
like 18 to 22.
yeah here you can see a number that is
the average salary
in japan if you graduate from university
and you start working in a company
how is that compared to where are you
from
is it less or more that's the amount of
dollars down here we translated it
less that's much less oh right okay how
much less is it
uh at least 20 000.
right okay so there's quite a lot cut
from the cup from the salary
yes it is yes it is would you would you
go and work for that
no i'm a nurse right so no most
definitely i wouldn't work for i
wouldn't want to work for it
but if i had to i would do what i have
to do to survive so
always do what you have to do to survive
but me personally i'm a nurse and i
wouldn't work for that
how much how much does a nurse on
average earn if i'm allowed to ask like
on average
over 50 000 a year depends on the
department that you're in
a travel nurse easily make 80 to
120 000 a year but i'm not in that
position so
roughly working there though yeah
roughly is what uh
50 60 000 for me a year right so
like the japanese salary is a lot less
than you yes it is a lot less
a lot less comparing that to this number
that's the average for two rooms in the
tokyo area that you pay
i mean compared to like a metropolis
area because like if you were going to
get a job
that like being an animator you'd have
to live in
california or new york and like there
a one bedroom is probably 1500 or so
so i'd say it's about half as much here
for a living
oh so the salary is lower but the money
for living
is lower too right so 890 dollars
is good for two bedrooms oh yeah yeah
still
like in america that would be like a
middle-sized city kind of budget
and like in a metropolis area that's
yeah that's a one bedroom you'd be lucky
to get a one bedroom for that much
like for the center of tokyo that is a
one bedroom
like dude like on the outsides it's
probably two makes me wanna move
here interesting i thought that was high
bro girl you know i lived in new york or
los angeles
which are you paying for new york and
los angeles for
two months let's just say a little bit
more than that
or two bedrooms one bedroom wow
that is pricey living in the closet
and i thought japan had the rumor of
like having small rooms and higher rents
i learned something this time have you
ever been to new york nope
oh dear yeah stay here otherwise you
might die from the shock
rent i learned something this
is the average for two rooms in tokyo
and around the tokyo area
so you pay about that much for living
like
dollars for living one two room
apartment
is that more or less than you thought it
would be more
it would cost more in china yeah
the the rent is high yeah
and people in the big cities are
the the living expensive is is quite
high
yeah actually if you lived in the big
cities that would mean
you get paid less and the rent is higher
yeah yeah
wow it's really hard to make a living
in every city big city we earn more than
small cities but the range is higher
such as some cities near shanghai maybe
more chances big cities more chances
yeah so people still like to go to big
cities
to make fortune there yeah all right so
when you
graduate uh will you be working in new
shanghai is that where you're trying to
apply for
yeah i choose to work shanghai or near
shanghai
if i had a chance to go abroad maybe in
a foreign area i would try to
experience the life in a different
country yeah
if you were uh to stay and work in
shanghai hopefully you get the salary
that i showed you earlier
how much do you think you would have to
pay for your flat in shanghai
i would pay more than half of my salary
to pay the rent yeah so people who own
real estate must be very rich yeah i
think
i think and it can pass down to their
child and their child our rich
rich case say in not the center of tokyo
but in the tokyo
area so that's how much you'd pay for a
two
room apartment a month a month yeah
that's uh probably cheaper than what you
pay in australia
right so more than eight hundred ninety
dollars a month yeah definitely
yeah you pay about uh one that one and a
half thousand a month kind of for
for right for a two bedroom apartment
yeah so
and that's not in like the center either
that's in this about 20 minutes from the
city
so yeah on the train oh yeah yeah
yeah well it's double the price but we
also get double the money as well
on a typical salary so it's you know
pros and cons i guess
two bedrooms maybe a bit bigger than a
japanese style apartment so a lot bigger
i'm sure
exactly so yeah that's probably why we
pay more as well
oh that makes sense this can also if you
go towards the center of tokyo that's
the price for one room apartment
yeah is that expensive still or not for
one room apartment
uh towards the center i would i'd say
it's probably more in australia
yeah yeah we pay a lot for our
accommodation now
yeah our houses are expensive our
apartments are expensive as well
less payment but also less toupee
runways yeah true that's all right tokyo
one bedroom within a share
or by yourself like your own little
apartment
it's probably yeah yeah london price
yeah it's about the same
yeah same as london orbit with less well
i'm in outer london and that's about the
same as
i think london would be a bit more but
yeah that's the
about average average outer london not
central
central tokyo that seems quite low to me
yeah i mean that's not
central central talk it's a little bit
only further away from the stations yeah
yeah probably about the same as us this
is the amount of a two-room apartment
in like around the tokyo area not in the
center yeah
that's a 390
yeah because some places in um atlanta
are actually
higher higher than that yeah so that's
fair i'm in a two-bedroom right now
and it's a little bit more than that
yeah
all right so you pay actually more at
your place yes
so you get paid more but you also have
to pay more rent is that what you do
what are like what the other expenses
that are quite a lot like
is it is tax or high expense like a
council tax
or like a community tax or maybe health
or something what is like another
payment between the taxes here so i
couldn't really
save but and it also depends on what
area you live in in atlanta oh yeah
determine the type of taxes that you
live we live in a fortune counter area
and
uh taxes are kind of high in foreign
county areas but then you go a little
further north and they're a little high
in the same county yeah
so it depends on the area you live in
basically how much taxes you
pay out so what is like the one thing
that you like the one
bill that you dread when it comes in
monthly like for me for example it would
be
like health the health insurance one
whenever i get that it's like
oh oh my god i have to pay that now so
what is like the bill that's like the
highest
monthly that comes in rent and rent is
the highest rank
and then i would say automobiles yeah
automobiles yeah car insurance yeah
yeah yeah so there's all like the big
ones there's insurance electricity those
kind of things
and your property your rent is the
number one
yeah probably a lot higher than this one
this is higher than that awesome thank
you so much those were all operations
so average salary and also average
living expenses
well pretty much just the base of the
living expenses which is the rent
there are loads of other expenses that
come on top of that guys don't
underestimate that
you have seen that depending on which
country you come from people say is okay
or is not
okay as you can see everything balances
out a little bit
seeing there might be less pay but
there's also the rent seems to be a bit
better than maybe for example in america
but then again it totally depends on
where you are
i hope you learned something from this
and maybe you can take something away
from that
my rent is very very expensive here in
tokyo because i live in a convenient
location so i can commute here to work
where i am right now
a little bit easier but it really
depends on your preferences do you
prefer to be
very close to the station does your
house to have to be new are you okay
with a really old house even though
there are earthquakes here you have to
kind of like select
the little bits what your real
priorities are and depending on that
you can see how much you have to pay for
your flight big issue there
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