Japan Payroll and Benefits Benchmark guide

7.00% - Employment Insurance
4.98% - 5.77% - Health Insurance
8.91% - Pension Insurance
0.25% - 10.8% - Worker Accident Compensation Insurance

0.40% - Employment Insurance
4.98% - 5.77% - Health Insurance
8.91% - Pension Insurance
0.00% - Up to 1.95M
10.00% - 1.95M - 3.3M
20.00% - 3.3M - 6.95M
23.00% - 6.95M - 9M
33.00% - 9M - 18M
40.00% - 18M - 40M
45.00% - Over 40M

Under Japanese labor law termination of full-time employees is difficult. Should they not want to leave, employees may dispute and proceed with negotiations generally leading to compensation in the sum of a minimum of one-month salary per year worked. Prior to dissmissal 30 days notice is required.

Advance notice is one month.

No severance pay is required unless the notice provided was inadequate. When such is the case, payment in lieu is required.

848 JPY hourly

No legal requirement for first 6 months, following employees are entitled to 10 days. In the folowing two years one day is added per year. From the 3rd year, workers are entitled to an additional 2 days each year until reaching 20.

There is no offical regulation.

Expecting mothers are entitled to 14 weeks unpaid maternity leave, 6 weeks before birth and 8 weeks after. Upon request and doctors approval workers can return after 6 weeks.

See parental leave.

Until the childs first birthday mothers and fathers may leave to care for their child.

Unpaid leave to care for a spouse, child, parent or grand parent for up to 3 months.

Full time working is considered to be 40 hours weekly, and 8 hours daily.

Wages during overtime hours must be paid at 125%-150% of regulaer wages. There is no statue on number of ovetime hours worked

5% standard rate.

Salaries are paid on a monthly basis. Payday is the 25th of every month.

Employee monthly contribution is 16,340 JYP from April 2018-March 2019

Social security in Japan inlucdes health insurance, nursing care insurnace, pension insurance, employment insurance and workmens accident compensation insurance.

Residence tax is levied on the individual the following year based on the previous years income and deducted on a monthly basis. Thus it will begin to be levied from second calendar year in Japan and will be based on the previous years income at about 10%.