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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