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I don't know your exact area of expertise, but the salaries for software engineering in Tokyo tend to range between 4M for a junior to 12M for a senior. Some bi
by Seb-C 3y ago
I don't know your exact area of expertise, but the salaries for software engineering in Tokyo tend to range between 4M for a junior to 12M for a senior. Some big companies (especially in finance) may go as far as ~15M, but it's pretty exceptional.
Unless you have a specifically rare expertise, I do not think it is realistic to ask 20M, it will probably make the company reject your profile without negociation.
Now if you go the freelance route, it's probably feasible (but not necessarily easy, it depends a lot on your Japanese level and how much you want to work and can handle context switching), but you'd need a plan to get an appropriate visa first.
Source: I have been living here for 5 years, AMA.
- AA-BA-94-2A-56 3y agoThat's kind of low ngl.
- Seb-C 3y agoYou cannot compare just the raw salary using the conversion rate, the cost of living is different everywhere. In Tokyo those salaries are enough to live like a king, more than most big cities in the world. Here you can get a decent family house close to a station for about 100~150k per month (and even buy one for the same range in loan). No need to own and pay for a car because the public transportation is amazing. Pension and healthcare are all fairly cheap and automatically handled for you. Except for education which is super expensive, it's pretty easy as a senior engineer to end up saving 300~500k every month with just a single normal job.