Majority of Companies Freeze Starting Salary for Third Straight Year
According to a survey conducted by the Japan
Federation of Employers' Associations (Nikkeiren),
59.8% of the 505 companies surveyed replied
that they have frozen the starting salaries
they offer. This figure is 4.2 points higher
than last year's and marked the third straight
year that over half the companies surveyed
have frozen starting salaries. The most frequent
reason given for this was the freezing of
basic salaries.
By schooling, starting salaries were as follows:
graduate school, clerical: 222,264 yen (up
0.4%); university, clerical: 202,448 yen
(up 0.2%); technical college, technical:
178,818 yen (up 0.3%); junior college, clerical:
170,716 yen (up 0.2%); and high school, clerical:
159,287 yen (up 0.2%).
By industry, printing and publishing
jobs
are the highest paid, with a starting
salary
index of 109.0, while finance and insurance
was the lowest paid with an index of
87.4.
(Average of starting salaries for university
graduates in clerical jobs for all
industries
indexed at 100).