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Minimum Wage

2012-10-3 | Economy |

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Minimum wage is the wage set forth under the Minimum Wages Act and there are minimum wages set forth according to area and according to industry. Here, the minimum wages according to area have been compared.

The highest minimum wage is in Tokyo, with \791. Tokyo is followed by other urban areas such as Kanagawa (\789), Osaka (\762) and Saitama (\735). The lowest is in Okinawa, Miyazaki and Saga with \692. Prefectures in Kyushu and the Tohoku area are ranked low.

The correlative ranking shows that it is highly correlated with rankings in which urban areas are ranked high, such as Broadband Contracts, Prefectural Income and average residential land prices, indicating that minimum wages are higher in urban areas.

MINIMUM WAGE

Source　Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (2012)

Rank	Prefectures	Minimum Wage	Standard Score
Sort	Desc Asc	Desc Asc	Desc Asc
1	Tokyo	850円	80.92
2	Kanagawa	849円	80.72
3	Osaka	800円	70.72
4	Saitama	771円	64.79
5	Kyoto	759円	62.35
6	Aichi	758円	62.14
7	Chiba	756円	61.73
8	Hyogo	749円	60.30
9	Shizuoka	735円	57.45
10	Mie	724円	55.20
11	Hokkaido	719円	54.18
11	Hiroshima	719円	54.18
13	Shiga	716円	53.57
14	Gifu	713円	52.95
15	Tochigi	705円	51.32
16	Fukuoka	701円	50.50
17	Nagano	700円	50.30
17	Toyama	700円	50.30
19	Nara	699円	50.10
19	Ibaraki	699円	50.10
21	Gunma	696円	49.48
22	Yamanashi	695円	49.28
23	Ishikawa	693円	48.87
24	Okayama	691円	48.46
25	Fukui	690円	48.26
25	Yamaguchi	690円	48.26
25	Wakayama	690円	48.26
28	Niigata	689円	48.05
29	Miyagi	685円	47.24
30	Kagawa	674円	44.99
31	Fukushima	664円	42.95
32	Akita	654円	40.91
32	Yamagata	654円	40.91
32	Kagoshima	654円	40.91
32	Aomori	654円	40.91
32	Tokushima	654円	40.91
32	Ehime	654円	40.91
38	Kumamoto	653円	40.70
38	Okinawa	653円	40.70
38	Miyazaki	653円	40.70
38	Oita	653円	40.70
38	Tottori	653円	40.70
38	Nagasaki	653円	40.70
38	Saga	653円	40.70
38	Iwate	653円	40.70
46	Kochi	652円	40.50
46	Shimane	652円	40.50
	Japan	749円