Japan Work Life at 29 | $1,590 Starting Salary, 45-Hour Overtime Cap | Living Alone in Japan 🇯🇵
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Hello! I'm Rei, a Japanese woman living in Osaka 😊
Japan work life at 29 — a $1,590 starting salary, a legal cap of 45 overtime hours a month, and what working here is actually like.
Today is a work-from-home day, so I go through how working in Japan really works. Job hunting starts in your third year of university, everyone begins on the same day (April 1st), and everyone wears the same black "recruit suit" to interviews.
A graduate's starting salary is around 250,000 yen (about $1,590) a month, or 200,000 yen ($1,270) after tax. Not high. But my rent is 70,000 yen (about $440), so you can live on it.
Overtime is now capped at 45 hours a month by law — there used to be no cap at all. Paid leave goes up to 20 days a year, but only about 60% of it gets taken. And 30% of people quit within three years of joining, which would have been unthinkable a generation ago.
I chose this way of working myself. But because I chose it, I get anxious — people my age seem to be moving ahead while I stand still.
In your country, how much is a starting salary? And how many days of paid leave do you get?
Thank you for watching 🤍
⏱ Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:30 A work-from-home day, and today's topic
1:12 Lunch for 60 yen
2:09 Job hunting in Japan: everyone starts April 1
2:39 The black "recruit suit"
3:45 Starting salary: $1,590 a month
4:41 Commuting, and who pays for it
5:03 A convenience store smoothie
6:59 Back to work at 4pm
8:10 The 45-hour overtime cap
8:41 Paid leave: 20 days, 60% taken
10:16 Why pay barely moved for 30 years
11:32 Frozen gyoza for dinner
16:20 Am I standing still?
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16 Comments
In France, we get 25 days of paid vacation 😃
Days off I like to relax at home too. I work in the office so it is nice to come home. 😊
Normal is to have 25 days paid leave here and we usually take 4 weeks in a row during june-august, the company can say what 4 weeks in a row you can take but it is illegal for them to refuse.
40h overtime per month and 160h per year can be demanded without legal issues, but all overtime has to be paid for and usually the pay for overtime is 70-90% higher. 😊
Japan Work Life at 29 | $1,590 Starting Salary, 45-Hour Overtime Cap | Living Alone in Japan 🇯🇵
Rei | Daily Life in Japan
9,540 views
💴 My real salary, and what an ordinary month actually costs
→ My Salary at 29 in Japan | The Real Cost o...
Hello! I'm Rei, a Japanese woman living in Osaka 😊
Japan work life at 29 — a $1,590 starting salary, a legal cap of 45 overtime hours a month, and what working here is actually like.
Today is a work-from-home day, so I go through how working in Japan really works. Job hunting starts in your third year of university, everyone begins on the same day (April 1st), and everyone wears the same black "recruit suit" to interviews.
A graduate's starting salary is around 250,000 yen (about $1,590) a month, or 200,000 yen ($1,270) after tax. Not high. But my rent is 70,000 yen (about $440), so you can live on it.
Overtime is now capped at 45 hours a month by law — there used to be no cap at all. Paid leave goes up to 20 days a year, but only about 60% of it gets taken. And 30% of people quit within three years of joining, which would have been unthinkable a generation ago.
I chose this way of working myself. But because I chose it, I get anxious — people my age seem to be moving ahead while I stand still.
In your country, how much is a starting salary? And how many days of paid leave do you get?
Thank you for watching 🤍
⏱ Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:30 A work-from-home day, and today's topic
1:12 Lunch for 60 yen
2:09 Job hunting in Japan: everyone starts April 1
2:39 The black "recruit suit"
3:45 Starting salary: $1,590 a month
4:41 Commuting, and who pays for it
5:03 A convenience store smoothie
6:59 Back to work at 4pm
8:10 The 45-hour overtime cap
8:41 Paid leave: 20 days, 60% taken
10:16 Why pay barely moved for 30 years
11:32 Frozen gyoza for dinner
16:20 Am I standing still?
Instagram→ Instagram: rei_lifeinjapan
☕️ For those who would like to support this channel → https://buymeacoffee.com/reilifeinjapan
#japanvlog #lifeinjapan #livinginjapan #japanworklife #workinginjapan #dayinthelife #slowliving