Please feel free to add any further anecdotes/personal experiences/concrete references of salaries etc. in the comments.
This is purely for curiosity, my own entertainment, I have no affiliation with Interac, and I have never worked for them. I am not in competition with them.
Interac Salaries Comparison – In Company – The Link and Motivation Group
I thought I would compare salaries using Interac’s parent company financial reports (www.lmi.ne.jp) . The number crunching for salaries and staff in roles is based on Japanese industry standards, if anyone has any better data then please feel free to share/adjust the figures.
Interac is part of their Matching Division, so the Matching Division is my primary focus.
Please note – Based on their financial reports Interac dispatch workers who go into schools are not listed as employees of the company and are not part of their in house average salary calculations.
As of December 31, 2023, The parent company indicates in its financial statements a total of 1,470 employees, of these the Matching Division (primarily Interac) has 807 employees listed.
The company states in its financial statements that the average salary of their employees (not interac dispatch workers who are not part of their calculations ) is 5,218,000 yen.
If pay rates and distribution of staff roles within the Matching Division align with Japan’s industry averages a reasonable breakdown of roles, the amount of staff in that position and industry average salary aligned with that position at Interac would be thus –
I don't know why they don't have dispatch workers as part of their average salaries? Is it better to have them as a cost burden? Anyone want to share their possible reasons?
by BHPJames
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They don’t view their dispatch workers as employees or humans, so they don’t get included. They are probably a line item next to printers, company cars, and other equipment.
>Based on their financial reports Interac dispatch workers who go into schools are not listed as employees of the company and are not part of their in house average salary calculations.
Of course. That’s how they can save their money for salaries for their execs. They use people as a “dispatch” through independent contracts that does not tie them under the company as official employees. It’s a legal loop hole that allows them to evade things such as taxes, insurance and other things that would be benefited if they were employees.
Dispatch workers are contractors not general staff.
It’s why they have to be renewed every year.
It also means they are left off these kinds of calculations as they are not permanent employees.
If included they would pull that average way down though.
They would outnumber all other employees combined and are (generally) paid less than the lowest category on that chart.
They have 40 executives? Is it one for every different region or something?
I stopped caring about these things as they’ll only send you crazy when you do. On top of a much better wage than alts(the customer facing workers) the full staff get sick pay, more holiday time most likely a summer and Christmas bonus and party.
The cornerstone of the business, the ALTs are all disposable individual units, your length of service doesn’t mean anything to them, your skill in the job doesn’t mean anything unless you want to be a trainer.
An organization that doesn’t have any respect for its own employees in the long term cannot prosper, I saw the same thing in eikawa and as the industry contracts year by year the lack of compassion for workers will eventually destroy that industry and probably this one..
I know everyone is having fun talking about ALTs are less than dirt
The real answer however, is a lot more pedestrian
This a list of the average salaries of seishain, not contract workers
That is all
Everyone talks about pay gaps. They never talk skill gaps or effort gaps. If ALTs spent half the time they spend ranting on Reddit learning to speak Japanese appropriately and on how to use excel, they could probably get an assistant manager seishain job at GUSTO or Ikinari Steak somewhere in Ibaraki or Tochigi at an AEON mall and make manager in 5 years and get 5 million & bonuses. But nobody wants to do that…
ALTs are the resource…. And thus not part of the company.