Productivity and Wage Cost

   Labor Productivity
(Manufacturing)
Wage cost
(Manufacturing)
Indices
(2020=100)
Annual
percent
change
Annual
percent
change
Calendar year   % %
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
2024 101.0 -2.2 6.5
2025 101.2 0.2 4.6
2025 Jul 100.5 -2.6 6.0
  Aug 95.4 -1.5 6.9
  Sep 106.4 2.5 1.0
  Oct 102.9 -1.3 3.9
  Nov 96.5 -1.2 8.4
  Dec 104.7 1.9 3.6
2026 Jan 102.3 -0.8 3.5
  Feb 98.7 0.3 4.4
  Mar 114.2 0.6 1.7
  Apr 97.0 -0.1 3.2
  May 98.7 0.3 6.5
  Jun 103.0 4.5 0.7
  Jul 103.5 3.0 1.1
  Aug 97.4 2.1 1.6
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.