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1.3 Net average monthly salary ... average wages for full-time employees in their local currency and in US Dollar. The chart below reflects the average (mean) wage as ...
The gross average monthly wage estimates for 2023 are computed by converting national currency figures from the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Statistical Database, compiled from national and international (the CIS, Eurostat, the OECD) official sources. Wages in U.S. dollars are computed by the UNECE Secretariat using ...
The new average national minimum wage was expected to take effect around October 2023. [ 5 ] As of early October 2023, the lowest minimum wage in Japan exists in the Iwate Prefecture at ¥893 an hour (6.03 U.S. dollars), while the highest minimum wage is in Tokyo at ¥1,113 an hour (7.51 U.S. dollars).
The salary distribution is right-skewed, therefore more than 50% of people earn less than the average net salary. These figures have been shrunk after the application of the income tax . In certain countries, actual incomes may exceed those listed in the table due to the existence of grey economies .
In 2011, the yen/dollar rate is 79.8 (average), valuing Japan's nominal 2011 GDP figure of 468.1 trillion yen, [1] at US $5.87 trillion or 37.9 trillion yuan (at 6.4588/dollar). That is less than the revised 2011 figure for China of 47.16 trillion yuan. [ 2 ]
In Japanese history, the Jōmon period (縄文 時代, Jōmon jidai) is the time between c. 14,000 and 300 BCE, [1] [2] [3] during which Japan was inhabited by a diverse hunter-gatherer and early agriculturalist population united through a common Jōmon culture, which reached a considerable degree of sedentism and cultural complexity. [4]
In the June 2012 bonus period, according to a survey of wives, their husbands' average after-tax summer bonus fell 65,000 yen from a year earlier to 611,000 yen, the lowest since the survey began in 2003, according to Sompo Japan DIY Insurance Company. [4]
The economic history of Japan is one of the most studied. Major milestones in modern Japan's economic progress include: The foundation of the Tokugawa shogunate based in Edo (in 1603), initiating a period of internal economic development. The Meiji Restoration (in 1868) leading to Japan becoming the first non-European modern world power.