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Which jobs in Japan are going to see the biggest increase in wages over the next few decades?

  • March 3, 2026

I was watching the morning news this morning and they were showing data from 2020-2024. It showed that taxi drivers, dentists and a few other jobs (which I have now forgotten) had seen the average salary increase by just under 40%. Other jobs like education (elementary to high school), nursing and a few more had only seen an increase of 0.1%.

by Interesting-Oil5768

10 comments

  1. Realistically? Probably jobs around AI and automation, simply because of how much the government is banking on it solving the future population crisis. A part of me thinks that jobs that natives can do are going to see increases as well, while more menial jobs that can be done by unskilled labor sourced from poorer countries will see the smallest increases. Anything highly specialized is also a good bet.

  2. I can point to a group of around ten people who were translators a couple of years ago… three are still working and well-paid, the others have left the industry. So the average in that group has shot up, but I don’t think it’s necessarily a positive sign regarding longer-term prospects.

  4. Government employees. Those useless brats increase salaries regardless of economy.

    Not just in Japan.

  6. Blue collar jobs have gone up in salary more than white collar jobs since 2020. I read about it the other day. I would say, building things, repairing things, services for elderly.

  8. guess it’s time to apply for one of those taxi jobs aimed at driving foreign tourists around 

  9. Semiconductor industry jobs should see salary increases given the 88 billion dollar investment into the industry.

  10. Robotics, AI, automation, maybe public health given that more pandemics are inevitably on the way, worsening by climate change.

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