Japan
PPP-adjusted average annual wage
$50,183 2025
Japan’s 2025 average annual wage is 50182.646 USD PPP in constant prices. The 2024 consumer price profile shows food as the sole category above the United States benchmark at +12 index points, while health costs trail by -66.1 points. Price data for 2022 and 2023 are unavailable.
1-Year Change
−0.5%
vs 2024
5-Year Change
−2.2%
vs 2020
Overall Price Level
59.2
2024 · United States = 100
Wage data: 2025 · Price data: 2024
Wage History
Track PPP-adjusted average annual wages in constant prices over time.
PPP-adjusted annual wage (USD)
USD PPP, constant 2025 prices
Wage Key Facts
Latest Wage
$50,183
Latest Year
2025
1-Year Change
−0.5%
5-Year Change
−2.2%
10-Year Change
−1.6%
Historical Peak
$52,662
Peak Year
1997
Change From Peak
−4.7%
What the Wage Trend Shows
The 2025 average annual wage measured 50182.646 USD PPP in constant terms. This marks a 0.47 percent decrease from the prior year's reported value.
Five-year wage performance shows a contraction of 2.17 percent since 2020. The ten-year change from 2015 indicates a further decline of 1.65 percent.
Consumer Price Levels
Compare eight consumer price categories with the United States benchmark of 100.
United States = 100
What Prices Look Like
Highest: Food
Food has the highest relative price level among the available categories, at 112 (United States = 100).
Lowest: Health
Health is the lowest at 33.9, −66.1 index points against the United States benchmark.
Overall vs United States
The overall price level is 59.2, below the United States benchmark (−40.8 index points).
Wage and Price Snapshot
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Food prices exceeded the United States benchmark with an index of 112 in 2024. This unique position contrasts with seven other categories that fell below the reference.
Health services recorded the largest deficit at 33.9 index points below the United States. Housing followed at 48.5, indicating substantial divergence in service costs.
Overall consumption stood at 59.2 relative to the United States benchmark in 2024. Transport and recreation occupied middle positions between the high food and low health extremes.
- Latest wage recordWage year 2025
- $50,183
- Price category coveragePrice year 2024
- 8 of 8
- Relative to United States7 below, 0 at 100
- 1 above
Compare Japan
See how Japan's wages and price levels compare with other OECD economies.
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Portugal$44,9372025−10.5%lower
Latvia$44,7092025−10.9%lower
Costa Rica$44,4312024−11.5%lower
Czechia$43,6072025−13.1%lower
Türkiye$57,2752024+14.1%higher
Israel$57,4262025+14.4%higher
Spain$57,7792025+15.1%higher
Lithuania$58,1122025+15.8%higher
Estonia$41,0192025−18.3%lower
Chile$40,6262023−19.0%lowerSimilar Economies
How to Read This Country Page
Three boundaries keep wage and price comparisons from being misread.
- Wage basis
- The annual wage is expressed in USD PPP at constant 2025 prices. It is an average, not a median wage, local-currency amount, or take-home figure.
- Years stay separate
- The latest wage year and the price year do not have to match. Price controls read only 2022, 2023, or 2024 and never substitute another year.
- Price benchmark
- 100 represents the United States price level. A value of 120 is reported here as 20 index points above that benchmark.
Data Coverage and Limits
See which years are actually present before comparing wage and price records.
Wage data covers a 35-year span from 1990 to 2025 with 36 total observations. This continuous series enables multi-decade trend assessment in constant USD PPP.
Price category availability is limited to specific years within the current release. While 2024 offers full coverage, both 2022 and 2023 report entirely null values.
The wage time series begins at 50786.825 USD PPP in 1990 and ends at 50182.646 in 2025. This range captures long-term structural shifts across thirty-five years.
- Wage observations
- 36
- Wage coverage
- 1990-2025
- Price categories · 2024
- 8 of 8
- Price categories · 2023
- 0 of 8
- Price categories · 2022
- 0 of 8
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the average annual wage in Japan?
Japan’s average annual wage reached 50182.646 USD PPP in 2025 under constant price adjustments. This figure represents purchasing-power-adjusted earnings rather than nominal yen-denominated compensation.
How has the average wage changed in Japan?
Wages declined 2.17 percent over five years from 2020 and 1.65 percent over ten years from 2015. The most recent one-year change from 2024 was negative at -0.47 percent.
What are consumer price levels like in Japan?
In 2024, food was the only category above the United States at +12 index points while health trailed by -66.1 points. Overall consumption sat at 59.2, though 2022 and 2023 values are unavailable.
Have wages in Japan fallen over the past five years?
Yes, the average wage fell 2.17 percent between 2020 and 2025 in constant USD PPP terms. This five-year contraction continues a longer pattern of gradual decline since the 1997 peak.
Wage data
OECD Average Annual Wages
Price data
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Reported coverage
Wages through 2025 · Prices through 2024