As a foreigner living and working in Japan , have you encountered an issue with the **wage gap** for the **foreign** people? Or maybe you’ve heard about such treatment?
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(I’m **not** talking about the gender wage gap, that’s a different matter)
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Yeah my wage is higher than the Japanese person they hired the same time as me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/movingtojapan/comments/10c84ah/higher_salary_than_japanese_coworkers/
I would imagine Japan has a positive wage gap.
Generally an immigrant wage gap is going to depend on where the immigrants are coming from.
Japan has very strict immigration policies, so there won’t be many lower-class immigrants or economic migrants, so the only people that are really going to Japan are going there to fill professional roles that pay well. And possibly pay better than the residents working the same job, as any company hiring a foreigner to work a professional job is going to have to offer higher compensation to encourage them to make the move.
In a country where immigration rules are loose and largely unregulated(i.e. US, Canada, and Western Europe), immigrants are going to largely come from lower class groups, and thus they will earn on average less than the nation’s residents, leading to a negative wage gap.