Throwaway account but I’ve been offered a business assignment in Yokohama for several years. My company is an global high tech manufacturing company so there’ll be no issues with English being spoken at work or with me living in Japan. The concern is my salary will be significantly than most of my management and coworkers, 2-3X their salary. It’s not that I’m overpaid in my home country, but rather the salaries are low in Japan.
I’m worried this salary difference and my non-Japanese work hours will immediately put a target on my back and negatively affect the team morale. My line of work makes remote work impossible and teamwork necessary, hence the business assignment.
Has anybody here gone through something similar? Or am I over thinking this?
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>… my salary will be significantly than most of my management and coworkers, 2-3X their salary.
Am there. Doing that. Have the t-shirt (secretly mink lined).
Your company will try the best to keep your salary “secret” and your Japanese boss will privately nag you about keeping your salary secret from your coworkers (and that you make more than him). However, don’t expect your yearly pay increases to be as large as you previously were getting in your home country.
Don’t tell anyone anything.
If the subject comes up, change it to something else, such as the issue of shrinkflation in the global coconut market.
Pro-Tip: Trust no one, Agent Gobbler. Trust no one.