This seems absurdly high. I barely see people making those kinds of salaries in large foreign companies.
Anecdotally, my friend earned something like 5M yen and was working 10-12 hour days including Saturday at entry/mid level.
Anecdotally, my friend earned something like 5M yen and was working 10-12 hour days including Saturday at entry/mid level.
I would suggest you to re-evaluate your market opportunities if you are an Engineer getting paid ¥5M in Japan.
My starting salary was 2.1M yen in Japan, and until my current position never breached 5.5M
Happy to discuss more over chat or something similar. Let me know if you want to compare notes.
I've worked extensively with the best salary datasets available. Even then, you shouldn't believe everything you read. Even when the data is good, it's not reality. I fail to believe SalaryExperts are anywhere near experts in this case when there is so many odd points on that page.
For starters, it's kind of weird to fix game dev salaries on Tokyo when the Kyoto Triangle is a thing. I have on-the-ground context on Japan because I can see the Nintendo office from my backyard. People who aren't familiar with Japan don't realize that Tokyo city doesn't even exist or at least stopped existing over a century ago. That's just a litmus test as to why you trust the anecdotal evidence of people who actually live and work in Japan over a cherrypicked website from Google search for "game dev salary Japan".