That is like an approximate three yen an hour raise assuming a 40-hour work week. Work your wage. Time to start polishing your resume.
I got 3% minimum as guidance from HR for my folks
I think yearly 2% raise is pretty normal in a traditional company. The raise is not bound to performance.
540 yen is insultingly low. Googling 昇給率 平均 says about 2%, but with everything getting more expensive these days, I expect 4% as an absolute minimum for my industry.
Your 540 yen raise is about 0.19% btw.
Considering Japan’s inflation in 2022 was 2.3%, your actual pay is going down.
I can assure you that your boss is taking advantage of you because you don’t know any better and/or they believe in slave labor.
That’s absurdly low. My company is also giving 3% btw
Damn. I’ve been getting 10-12% annually. That seems super low.
Sorry to cling to your post but since we are talking pay rises, my company didn’t give any and when I asked they told me they do evaluation period on April and if it goes well I might get a rise in June, would you guys wait? Or just start looking for job now? (IT)
If possible, you should negotiate for a higher amount, or a “market adjustment”, or a 1-time additional bonus…something.
Core inflation in December was 4%. I believe it will go higher.
At your salary, you likely do not have much disposable income, so you pretty much need a raise equal to the inflation rate to maintain your standard of living.
If you were making say 8M or 10M JPY, then you don’t *necessarily* have to match the inflation rate because you would probably not be spending everything you make. You’d still need a raise of more than 540 yen though!
Got 8% this year.
If
1. Your company is not making decent profits 2. Your company knows you don’t really have the skills to easily jump ship (and they feel they could replace you fairly easily if you did somehow manage it)
Then you are not getting a raise.
This covers the majority of companies/workers in Japan.
>My current pay is 280998¥ > >Any advice?
Well, some guy was on here yesterday saying that he was quitting his 17-million-yen-a-year job as a Java developer, and seemed quite confident that he could find another that paid equally well or better. So, you and me both should think about reskilling.
I’ll get the ball rolling:
// Here’s to better paid future! class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println(“Hello, World!”); } }
OK, here’s one more, that was doing the rounds on Japanese Twitter. ***Nominal*** **wages from 1997 to 2018.**
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That is like an approximate three yen an hour raise assuming a 40-hour work week. Work your wage. Time to start polishing your resume.
I got 3% minimum as guidance from HR for my folks
I think yearly 2% raise is pretty normal in a traditional company. The raise is not bound to performance.
540 yen is insultingly low. Googling 昇給率 平均 says about 2%, but with everything getting more expensive these days, I expect 4% as an absolute minimum for my industry.
Your 540 yen raise is about 0.19% btw.
Considering Japan’s inflation in 2022 was 2.3%, your actual pay is going down.
I can assure you that your boss is taking advantage of you because you don’t know any better and/or they believe in slave labor.
That’s absurdly low. My company is also giving 3% btw
Damn. I’ve been getting 10-12% annually. That seems super low.
Sorry to cling to your post but since we are talking pay rises, my company didn’t give any and when I asked they told me they do evaluation period on April and if it goes well I might get a rise in June, would you guys wait? Or just start looking for job now? (IT)
If possible, you should negotiate for a higher amount, or a “market adjustment”, or a 1-time additional bonus…something.
Core inflation in December was 4%. I believe it will go higher.
At your salary, you likely do not have much disposable income, so you pretty much need a raise equal to the inflation rate to maintain your standard of living.
If you were making say 8M or 10M JPY, then you don’t *necessarily* have to match the inflation rate because you would probably not be spending everything you make. You’d still need a raise of more than 540 yen though!
Got 8% this year.
If
1. Your company is not making decent profits
2. Your company knows you don’t really have the skills to easily jump ship (and they feel they could replace you fairly easily if you did somehow manage it)
Then you are not getting a raise.
This covers the majority of companies/workers in Japan.
>My current pay is 280998¥
>
>Any advice?
Well, some guy was on here yesterday saying that he was quitting his 17-million-yen-a-year job as a Java developer, and seemed quite confident that he could find another that paid equally well or better. So, you and me both should think about reskilling.
I’ll get the ball rolling:
// Here’s to better paid future!
class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(“Hello, World!”);
} }
OK, here’s one more, that was doing the rounds on Japanese Twitter.
***Nominal*** **wages from 1997 to 2018.**
https://preview.redd.it/ybmldspfazca1.jpeg?width=298&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=4f08a91660f8ab94434c97e0841e0bbc090d0cb3
No pay rise at my company for six years, so count yourself lucky!
Super low…very fortunate that at my company raises are 10-15% raises/year
Lmao I’m sorry but that’s an insult. Won’t even get you a Starbucks.