Productivity and Wage Cost

   Labor Productivity
(Manufacturing)
Wage cost
(Manufacturing)
Indices
(2020=100)
Annual
percent
change
Annual
percent
change
Calendar year  
2018 108.5 - -
2019 107.0 -1.4 3.3
2020 100.0 -6.5 7.9
2021 104.7 4.7 -4.4
2022 105.1 0.4 0.8
2023 103.3 -1.7 3.2
2023 Jan 104.2 -1.0 3.7
  Feb 101.0 -1.9 0.8
  Mar 115.9 -1.9 2.9
  Apr 97.5 -0.5 0.8
  May 102.1 0.7 0.3
  Jun 102.2 -1.0 4.1
  Jul 101.2 -1.7 4.0
  Aug 101.6 -4.4 6.9
  Sep 105.2 -4.7 7.2
  Oct 103.1 -0.5 1.0
  Nov 101.9 -2.4 1.7
  Dec 104.1 -1.2 4.3
2024 Jan 102.7 -1.4 3.5
  Feb 96.9 -4.1 6.1
Source MHLW "Monthly Labour Survey"
METI "Indices of Industrial Production", 
MHLW
"Monthly Labour Survey"
NOTES:
Calculated by JILPT
Labor productivity indices = [(indices of industrial production(manufacturing) / 100) / {(regular employment indices / 100) * (total hours worked indices / 100)}]*100
Wage cost = [ { (indices of nominal wage / 100) * (regular employment indices / 100)} / (indices of industrial production(manufacturing) / 100) ]*100
Regular employment indices, indices of nominal wage and total hours worked indices : manufacturing, 5 employees or more.
Labor productivity and wage cost. Line chart. See the table above for data.