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Total Lifetime Earnings in Japan, 2015

The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training researched about workers' lifetime earnings. They defined  

Lifetime Earnings = The sum of the average salary of each age.

Lifetime earnings depends on gender and educational background.

The following shows the lifetime earnings in Japan by educational background, 2015

 

Table 1: General figures (unit: million yen, $, €)

Educational background men women men $ women $ men € women €
High school 246.1 182.4 2,192,505 1,625,002 1,954,772 1,448,803
2-year college 243.0 198.8 2,164,887 1,771,109 1,930,149 1,579,068
College 277.0 235.3 2,467,793 2,096,288 2,200,211 1,868,988

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Table in US dollar

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Table 2: Employee of big companies (more than 1000 employees) 

Educational background men women men $ women $ men € women €
High school 272.4 200.8 2,426,812 1,788,927 2,163,673 1,594,954
2-year college 279.0 220.6 2,485,611 1,965,325 2,216,097 1,752,226
College 305.9 252.4 2,725,263 2,248,632 2,429,764 2,004,813

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Table 3: Employee of medium companies (100-1000 employees) 

Educational background men women men $ women $ men € women €
High school 228.2 173.6 2,033,034 1,546,602 1,812,593 1,378,905
2-year college 224.3 193.7 1,998,289 1,725,673 1,781,615 1,538,559
College 248.2 224.1 2,211,214 1,996,507 1,971,453 1,780,026

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Table 4: Employee of small companies (less than 100 employees)  

Educational background men women men $ women $ men € women €
High school 195.0 147.4 1,737,255 1,313,187 1,548,885 1,170,798
2-year college 207.1 171.5 1,845,054 1,527,894 1,644,995 1,362,225
College 215.0 189.5 1,915,435 1,688,256 1,707,745 1,505,199

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Table in US dollar

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Source is The Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training

ユースフル労働統計 2015

www.jil.go.jp/kokunai/statistics/kako/documents/21_p281-325.pdf

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