Nippon Steel is raising the starting salary of university graduates in general positions by 18.3%. All Nippon Airways raised starting salaries for the second year in a row last year.
In a survey conducted by the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 50.2% of companies that conducted recruitment activities for new graduates responded that they had increased their starting salaries this year. Only 26% of firms that hired new graduates as planned were able to hire them as planned, the survey found.