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Minimum Wage

2019-8-1 | 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 (2018)

Rank	Prefectures	Minimum Wage	Standard Score
Sort	Desc Asc	Desc Asc	Desc Asc
1	Tokyo	985円	79.84
2	Kanagawa	983円	79.49
3	Osaka	936円	71.23
4	Aichi	898円	64.55
4	Saitama	898円	64.55
6	Chiba	895円	64.02
7	Kyoto	882円	61.74
8	Hyogo	871円	59.81
9	Shizuoka	858円	57.52
10	Mie	846円	55.41
11	Hiroshima	844円	55.06
12	Shiga	839円	54.18
13	Hokkaido	835円	53.48
14	Tochigi	826円	51.90
15	Gifu	825円	51.72
16	Ibaraki	822円	51.19
17	Toyama	821円	51.02
17	Nagano	821円	51.02
19	Fukuoka	814円	49.79
20	Nara	811円	49.26
21	Yamanashi	810円	49.08
22	Gunma	809円	48.91
23	Okayama	807円	48.56
24	Ishikawa	806円	48.38
25	Fukui	803円	47.85
25	Wakayama	803円	47.85
25	Niigata	803円	47.85
28	Yamaguchi	802円	47.68
29	Miyagi	798円	46.97
30	Kagawa	792円	45.92
31	Fukushima	772円	42.41
32	Tokushima	766円	41.35
33	Ehime	764円	41.00
33	Shimane	764円	41.00
35	Yamagata	763円	40.82
36	Oita	762円	40.65
36	Nagasaki	762円	40.65
36	Okinawa	762円	40.65
36	Kumamoto	762円	40.65
36	Miyazaki	762円	40.65
36	Tottori	762円	40.65
36	Saga	762円	40.65
36	Kochi	762円	40.65
36	Iwate	762円	40.65
36	Akita	762円	40.65
36	Aomori	762円	40.65
47	Kagoshima	761円	40.47
	Japan	815円