Springtime Wage Increase
| Average pay raise agreed upon | Wage-increase percentage | Laspeyres Wage Index | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Major enterprises |
Small and medium enterprises |
Major enterprises |
Small and medium enterprises |
Annual Change | |
| Calendar year | ¥ | ¥ | % | % | % |
| 1995 | 8,376 | 6,184 | 2.83 | 2.69 | 0.1 |
| 1996 | 8,712 | 6,148 | 2.86 | 2.64 | 0.5 |
| 1997 | 8,927 | 6,213 | 2.90 | 2.63 | 0.3 |
| 1998 | 8,323 | 5,381 | 2.66 | 2.24 | -0.0 |
| 1999 | 7,005 | 4,042 | 2.21 | 1.67 | -0.7 |
| 2000 | 6,499 | 3,798 | 2.06 | 1.56 | -0.7 |
| 2001 | 6,328 | 3,775 | 2.01 | 1.54 | -0.1 |
| 2002 | 5,265 | 2,913 | 1.66 | 1.19 | -1.3 |
| 2003 | 5,233 | 2,860 | 1.63 | 1.17 | -0.7 |
| 2004 | 5,348 | 3,048 | 1.67 | 1.26 | -0.7 |
| 2005 | 5,422 | 3,359 | 1.71 | 1.37 | -0.2 |
| 2006 | 5,661 | 3,587 | 1.79 | 1.47 | -0.1 |
| 2007 | 5,890 | 3,807 | 1.87 | 1.55 | 0.1 |
| 2008 | 6,149 | 3,787 | 1.99 | 1.54 | -0.5 |
| 2009 | 5,630 | － | 1.83 | － | -1.7 |
| 2010 | 5,516 | － | 1.82 | － | -0.5 |
| 2011 | 5,555 | － | 1.83 | － | -0.1 |
| 2012 | 5,400 | － | 1.78 | － | -0.1 |
| 2013 | 5,478 | － | 1.80 | － | -1.0 |
| 2014 | 6,711 | － | 2.19 | － | 0.6 |
| 2015 | 7,367 | － | 2.38 | － | 1.2 |
| 2016 | 6,639 | － | 2.14 | － | 0.1 |
| 2017 | 6,570 | － | 2.11 | － | -0.0 |
| 2018 | 7,033 | － | 2.26 | － | 0.2 |
| 2019 | 6,790 | － | 2.18 | － | 0.5 |
| 2020 | 6,286 | － | 2.00 | － | 0.7 |
| 2021 | 5,854 | － | 1.86 | － | -0.5 |
| 2022 | 6,898 | － | 2.20 | － | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 11,245 | － | 3.60 | － | － |
| Source | MHLW "Conditions Relating to Claim and Result of Spring Wage Negotiation" |
JILPT "Useful Labor Statistics" |
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- NOTES:
- Laspeyres Wage Index is estimated based on data from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's Basic Survey on Wage Structure by fixing the structure of employee(sex, educational level, age, and years of service).
Survey on "Small and medium enterprises" is ceased in 2009.
