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Japan's monthly wage hike rate tops 5% for 1st time in over 30 years

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The average monthly wage hike rate among big companies in Japan has topped 5 percent for the first time since 1991, when the Asian nation experienced an asset-inflated bubble economy, the country's largest business lobby said Monday.

Things are looking pretty good if you are a legacy hire, salaried middle manager at one of these modern day zaibatsu.

For most others not so much.

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19% of workers got raises, 81%?

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Finally!

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Yep I'd like to see the facts on this - I'm calling BS

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Most Japanese won’t see a thing.

in fact, I know of a large local company employing hundreds of staff with a bonus this summer-pay rises absolutely not.

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I should have written ‘no bonuses’ in the above comment

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Where, which companies?? Please, where is the article contents? I call totally BS this. I work here in Japan for 20 years, and the salaries are actually getting lower than they used to by pre Corona actually.

Just ask those doing Translating jobs or freelance in IT. Not to mention, the real salaries which are getting lower and lower by month.

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This is BS. Most companies, specially corporations only increase salaries once a year, April. I've been hearing these kind of news in this site every few weeks for months now. If true, salaries would've been in the millions by now.

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