As momentum for wage increases increases due to this year's spring labor union, there is a growing movement among companies to raise starting salaries in order to hire young talent.
Among the large companies, Nippon Steel is raising the starting salary of university graduates in general positions who join the company this month by 41,000 yen, or 18.3%.
The aim is to increase recruitment capabilities in securing talented human resources.
All Nippon Airways raised starting salaries for the second year in a row last year, and plans to raise them again next year for general positions in order to increase hiring competitiveness.
In the convenience store industry, all major companies continue to raise starting salaries, with increases starting at 25,000 yen for university graduates at FamilyMart, 16,000 yen at Lawson, and 7,000 yen for the third consecutive year. Eleven Japan costs 10,000 yen.
In addition, in a survey conducted by the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry in January targeting its member small and medium-sized enterprises, 50.2% of companies that conducted recruitment activities for new graduates responded that they had increased their starting salaries this year. .
However, only 26% of companies that conducted recruitment activities for new graduates were able to hire them as planned, and Hidekazu Oshita, second director of industrial policy at the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said, ``Small and medium-sized enterprises are not aware of their students. "There are some areas where our company's wages and salary levels are inferior to those of major companies, so it is important to take steps to raise wage levels by improving productivity and promoting price pass-through."