Japan · Income · 2024 data
Am I rich in Japan?
Enter your household income after tax. See your percentile — and what it actually means.
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Data: Japan National Tax Agency — Reiwa 6 (2024) Statistical Survey of Actual Status for Salary in the Private Sector, Table 3 (給与階級別の総括表). Percentile cut-offs interpolated within published salary brackets. · income year 2024, survey wave 2024
Income distribution in Japan
Each bar is a slice of Japan households. The cyan marker shows where you sit; the threshold flags below mark the median, top 10% and top 1%.
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What the numbers actually say
Useful framings, not slogans.
To join the top 10%, earn about 2.1× the median.
About 2.1× the typical household in Japan.
60% of Japan lives between ￥2,090,000 and ￥6,640,000.
If you're in this band, you're 'normal' — by the data.
The top 1% earn 4.4× the typical household.
It's a gulf, not a gap.
Cross ￥11,380,000 and you've outearned 95% of Japan.
The top 5% starts here.
The average (￥4,775,000) sits well above the median.
A few very high earners pull the mean up — the median is the truer middle.
A top-10% household earns 7.1× the bottom 10%.
The full spread of Japan, in one number.
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