Gender pay gap Japan 2013-2022, by income level

Published by Statista Research Department, Jan 22, 2024

In 2022, the gender pay gap for the median wages in Japan was 21.3 percent. Compared to other OECD countries, Japan was one of the countries with the highest gender pay gap during the measured period.

Gender wage gap in Japan from 2013 to 2022, by income level

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Release date

November 2023

Region

Japan

Survey time period

2013 to 2022

Special properties

among full-time employees

Supplementary notes

The gender wage gap is measured as the difference between median wages of men and women divided by the median wages of men.

This dataset contains three earnings-dispersion measures - ratio of 9th-to-1st, 9th-to-5th and 5th-to-1st - where ninth, fifth (or median) and first deciles are upper-earnings decile limits of gross earnings of full-time dependent employees, excluding overtime earnings and annual special cash earnings.

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