Japan - Wage & Salaries





Japan: Wage & Salaries

Mnemonic YPEWS.IJPN
Unit Mil. JPY
Annual 0.99 %
Data 2014 252,097,472
2013 249,624,331

Series Information

Source Economic and Social Research Institute - Japan
Release Compensation of Employees (Sub-National)
Frequency Annual
Start Date 12/31/2005
End Date 12/31/2014

Japan: Labor

Reference Last Previous Units Frequency
Labor Force Jan 2024 6,935 6,937 10 Ths. #, SA Monthly
Labor Force Employment Jan 2024 6,761 6,764 10 Ths. #, SA Monthly
Total Employment Jan 2024 6,761 6,764 10 Ths. #, SA Monthly
Total Employment Non-Ag Jan 2024 6,559 6,602 10 Ths. #, NSA Monthly
Unemployment Jan 2024 170 172 10 Ths. #, SA Monthly
Unemployment Rate Jan 2024 2.4 2.5 %, SA Monthly
Real Wages & Salaries 2023 Q4 271,170 270,784 Bil. Ch. 2011 JPY, SAAR Quarterly
Agriculture Employment 2017 2,320,973 2,340,886 # Annual
Wage & Salaries 2014 252,097,472 249,624,331 Mil. JPY Annual

Release Information

Compensation of employees refers to the amount distributed to employees in return for the labor provided. Allocation of primary income account in the income and outlay accounts are recorded only for households receiving income.  The data includes employees in industry, government service production workers engaged in any productive activity regardless of the production of private nonprofit services to households, and all persons except unpaid family workers and private employers, corporate business executives, civil servants at special jobs.  The employer is also included as a member.
Employees are composed of the following items, one of which (b), part 2 and 3, rather than be paid to employers in the form of actual cash , is contained in the item compensation of employees as imputation.
1. Salary wages
2. The reality of employer social contributions
3. Contributions to social insurance programs such as lump-free retirement funds.

This dataset follows JSIC 2002, however the source made a modification to the industrial classification. For this particular reason the older data from 1996-2005 has been marked as discontinued and a current dataset from 2005-present is available.

The information provided above was taken from the source, Economic and Social Research Institute - Japan