What are the salaries, salary levels, and minimum wages of foreigners with specific skills? How much is "equivalent to Japanese"?

Specific Skilled ForeignerIf you want to know the salary and salary level of a Japanese company, you are probably a person in charge of human resources and labor at a Japanese company, or a foreigner who wants to obtain a specific skill visa.
Here, the administrative scrivener will explain in an easy-to-understand manner mainly for those in charge of companies that want to hire foreigners with specific skill visas.This content is also useful for foreigners, so please read it.

XNUMX. XNUMX.First, check the minimum wage of Japanese people

To summarize briefly,The salary level of foreigners with specific skills is equal to or higher than that of JapaneseIt is stipulated. The image that "foreign workers' wages are cheap" must be abandoned.Let's take a closer look at the meaning of "equivalent to Japanese".

▼ What is minimum wage?

The minimum wage is a fixed wage that an employer (company) is required to pay to a worker under the minimum wage system based on the Minimum Wage Law.The specific minimum wage amount is set for each region..For example, as of April 2021, there is a difference of 4 yen per hour in Tokyo, 1,013 yen in Osaka prefecture, and 964 yen in Aichi prefecture.

Even if the monthly salary is agreed upon between the employer and the worker, thatIf the monthly wage is less than or equal to the minimum wage, the arrangement is legally invalidIs said to be.In this case, the monthly wage will be treated as the same amount as the minimum wage in the area.

Personnel personnel at a company are required to know the minimum wage in the area where they work.Minimum wage continues to be updatedSo let's be able to catch the information.

Below, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare"List of minimum wages by region'is helpful, so please check it out.

▼ Does the minimum wage also apply to foreign workers?

Since the minimum wage system covers all workers in Japan, the minimum wage provision applies to foreign workers working in Japan as well as Japanese.

<Salary level equal to or higher than Japanese>

In the case of foreigners with specific skills, in addition to the above minimum wage rules, "The salary must be set equal to or higher than that of Japanese employees of the company who have the same experience and engage in the same work.” is the rule.

XNUMX.What is the specific idea of ​​salary?

▼ If there are wage regulations

If a company that hires a foreigner with a specific skill has a wage regulation, the salary of a Japanese employee who has the same level of experience and is engaged in the same business is equal to or higher than the salary paid in accordance with the wage regulation. Must be set as the salary of a specific skill foreigner.

For example, if the monthly salary of a Japanese employee who is a construction worker with 4 years of work experience at a construction company is 20 yen, technical intern training 1 to apply for "Specific Skill No. 2" (construction field) at that company. The monthly salary of foreigners who have completed the issue must be 20 yen or more.Those who have completed Technical Intern Training No. 2 are expected to have four years of work experience in the field of the training.

▼ When there are no wage regulations

What if the company does not have a wage policy?
If there is no wage regulation, Japanese employees engaged in similar work at companies in the same industry will be used for comparison.A foreigner who applies for a specific skill visa by submitting the Japanese employee and foreigner's resume, salary slip, standard monthly remuneration decision notice, presence or absence of position, details of responsibility, local industry standards, etc. I will explain that the difference between the salary of the Japanese and the salary of the Japanese to be compared is reasonable.

<Check items when there is no wage regulation>

• ・ Regional industry standard
• ・ Educational background / CV
• ·payslip
• ・ Presence or absence of job title
• ・ Responsibility

▼ If there are no Japanese employees

In the explanation so far, I have told you that the "salary of Japanese people engaged in equivalent work" will be a reference value when determining the salary of foreign employees.
However, there are no wage regulationsWhen Japanese people listed as comparison targets are not enrolledWhat should I do?
In that case, the amount of remuneration stated in the application documents,"Comparing the amount of remuneration for specific skilled foreigners in the same region held by the immigration office"It has been with.

<Point>

If the Japanese monthly salary cannot be used as a reference value,Remuneration amount for foreigners with specific skills in the areaIs a reference value

For details,of the Immigration Services AgencyInstructions on Remuneration for Specified Skilled WorkersPlease refer to.

XNUMX. XNUMX.What are the salaries and bonuses for foreigners with specific skills?

▼ About deductions from salary

You can deduct what you need from the salary of a foreigner with a specific skill.For tax withholding, social insurance premiums, residence tax, etc. that are collected from salary by Japanese employees, foreigners with specific skills can also deduct from salary.

<What is deducted from the salary of foreigners with specific skills>

• ・ Employees' pension
• ·Employment insurance
• ・ Withholding income tax
• ・ Resident tax (from June, the second year of working people)
• ・Long-term care insurance (40 to 64 years old)

By the way, the company side said this "Payroll deductionIt is very important to explain the system in advance and gain the understanding of foreign employees.If you do not explain, or if you do not get proper consent even if you explain,"Salary is less than expected" "I was lied to"and so onSense of distrustPlease note that it will cause you to hold.

▼About allowances, bonuses, and salary increases

All provisions for allowances, bonuses, and salary increases for foreigners with specific skills,It is necessary to set it equal to or higher than the Japanese employee to be compared.there is.In an extreme case, even if ``foreign employees are paid XX allowances that Japanese employees do not have,'' it is not a problem because it is a company policy, but ``Allowances paid to Japanese are not paid to foreign employees’ should not be the case.

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