Capcom, a game manufacturer headquartered in Osaka, has announced that it will raise the starting salary of new employees joining the company next spring by 65,000 yen to 300,000 yen.
As the competition for IT talent increases, the company hopes to attract more talent by improving benefits.
According to an announcement, Capcom will raise the monthly basic salary for new employees joining the company next spring from the current 235,000 yen to 300,000 yen, regardless of whether they graduate from vocational school or graduate school.
This is a significant increase of 27%.
In addition, in conjunction with this, approximately 3,000 full-time employees, including new employees who will join this spring, will be provided with a lump-sum payment and will receive an average salary increase of more than 5% in the new fiscal year.
The company is working to acquire IT human resources such as programmers who work on game production, but competition from other industries such as home appliances has recently become more intense, so the company is trying to improve compensation. We hope that this will lead to the acquisition of human resources.
As more and more companies hire students due to the labor shortage, leading to what has been described as a "seller's market," companies are increasingly moving to raise starting salaries.