Minimum Wage

2021-4-15 | 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 (2020)

Rank	Prefectures	Minimum Wage	Standard Score
Sort	Desc Asc	Desc Asc	Desc Asc
1	Tokyo	1,013円	79.98
2	Kanagawa	1,012円	79.80
3	Osaka	964円	71.29
4	Saitama	928円	64.91
5	Aichi	927円	64.73
6	Chiba	925円	64.38
7	Kyoto	909円	61.54
8	Hyogo	900円	59.94
9	Shizuoka	885円	57.28
10	Mie	874円	55.33
11	Hiroshima	871円	54.80
12	Shiga	868円	54.27
13	Hokkaido	861円	53.03
14	Tochigi	854円	51.79
15	Gifu	852円	51.43
16	Ibaraki	851円	51.26
17	Toyama	849円	50.90
17	Nagano	849円	50.90
19	Fukuoka	842円	49.66
20	Yamanashi	838円	48.95
20	Nara	838円	48.95
22	Gunma	837円	48.77
23	Okayama	834円	48.24
24	Ishikawa	833円	48.06
25	Niigata	831円	47.71
25	Wakayama	831円	47.71
27	Fukui	830円	47.53
28	Yamaguchi	829円	47.36
29	Miyagi	825円	46.65
30	Kagawa	820円	45.76
31	Fukushima	800円	42.21
32	Tokushima	796円	41.50
33	Aomori	793円	40.97
33	Iwate	793円	40.97
33	Yamagata	793円	40.97
33	Ehime	793円	40.97
33	Nagasaki	793円	40.97
33	Kumamoto	793円	40.97
33	Miyazaki	793円	40.97
33	Kagoshima	793円	40.97
41	Akita	792円	40.80
41	Tottori	792円	40.80
41	Shimane	792円	40.80
41	Kochi	792円	40.80
41	Saga	792円	40.80
41	Oita	792円	40.80
41	Okinawa	792円	40.80
	Japan	902円