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Labour market

Japan · Gender pay gap

Unadjusted gender pay gap: how much less women earn per hour vs men in NACE B-S excl. public admin.· Eurostat compares mean hourly pay of all employees; the OECD compares median earnings of full-time employees. Compare countries only within one source.
20.1%
2025
−0.5 ptsvs 2024
min 20.1 2025max 33.9 2001
%
Range
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Source: OECD, OECD Earnings database· Data 2025
Gap in median full-time earnings, % of men’sY-axis truncated

3rd highest of 9 countries · 20.7 % · OECD 2024 — Rank on the harmonised series (OECD), the same for every country: its value may differ from the national figure shown above.

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