Ask HN: Hours and salary of web developers working in Japan

[namrainen]

How many hours a day do you spend in average in the office? How much flexible are your hours?

Which technologies do you use and what's your salary range?

Although for USA and EU the internet is full of information, it's hard to find actual data for Japan. I'm thinking in particular to startups.

[patio11]

Market salaries in Tokyo startups for developers cluster in the $30k to $50k range. Market salaries for developers generally in Tokyo go up to ~$70k (assuming one is in twenties or thirties). There exists a separate scale in finance and foreign-owned corporations -- AppAmaGooBookSoft typically (but not always) pay at discounts to their US operations but not typically 70% discounts.

You'll find wide variability with regards to working hours in startups, with most of the range covering "high-growth US startup" or "Japanese professional employment" levels of expectations rather than "unionized public sector worker in US or Europe" level of expectations. You will find similar variance in flexibility.

[namrainen → patio11]

Thanks for your reply.

As basically the Japanese taxation (~23%) is lower than most of the countries in EU (~40%), even $50k sound interesting.

I guess that the focal point is on the life/work ratio that each company is going to offer.

[byoung2]

patio11 has posted a few times about that on HN. Here is one: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/

[namrainen → byoung2]

Thank you for the link – I read it some time ago already but it's an evergreen worth of a re-read!