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Application Engineer Salary in Tokyo
I'm an experienced Android software engineer. I moved to Tokyo a little while ago and am looking for a new job. I got an offer which is a third as much as I was making in San Francisco. I know it is a very different market here, but it's pretty hard to swallow. I also don't have a big background on what people are making here to know if it is in the right ballpark.
What are experienced engineers at start ups making?
What about other compensation?
- kamphey 12y agoHave you talked to Patio11? He might know.
- brd 12y agoThis obviously depends on what you were making before but 40-60k is the norm in Japan from what I understand. Certainly a huge difference compared to the US market.
- laurieg 12y agoI worked at a startup outside of Tokyo (Fukuoka) and got a little over 3million yen. Programming salaries are low.
- patio11 12y agoThat sounds like roughly market for Tokyo. You can do better, but you'll probably need to get a job at a foreign corporation in Tokyo. Remote is, of course, an option. What about other compensation? Japanese companies are great about compensating you with internal social status and decent at providing pecuniary benefits which are, for tax purposes, not counted as "salary" (but that's like a 20% multiplier, not a 300% multiplier), but if you were thinking equity, historically, companies here do not award meaningful amounts of it.
- chrisBob 12y agoYou moved to Japan but it sounds like you still need to research Japaneese culture. Salaries in Japan are lower but jobs typically make up for it in stability.
- mattmurdog 12y agoIt's very different than what it's like here that's for sure. You're expected to work longer hours for little(r) pay. It's a cultural thing to slave and slave away and to be happy that you have a job and you're contributing to a greater good.