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The story
On October 5, the Oita Prefectural Personnel Commission recommended that Governor Sato raise the monthly salaries and bonuses of prefectural employees. This marks the fifth consecutive year of recommended raises, and if implemented, average annual pay would rise by ¥208,000. Based on survey findings showing prefectural employees earned ¥11,232 less per month and 0.04 months less in bonuses than workers at private companies in the prefecture, the commission is calling for a monthly pay increase of ¥11,218 and a bonus increase of 0.05 months’ pay. On 5ch, the thread split between users who felt it only made sense to match private-sector wage hikes, and those who questioned the raise by pointing to how the comparison companies were chosen or comparing it to pay in Tokyo’s 23 wards — the discussion broadened into a wider debate over civil servant compensation in general.
The Oita Prefectural Personnel Commission recommended on the 5th that Governor Sato raise the monthly salaries and bonuses of prefectural employees. This is the fifth consecutive year such a recommendation has been made.
According to the commission’s survey, prefectural employees’ pay was ¥11,232 lower per month and 0.04 months lower in bonuses compared to private-sector workers in the prefecture.
Taking this survey and the National Personnel Authority’s recommendation into account, the commission is calling for an average monthly pay increase of ¥11,218 and a bonus increase of 0.05 months’ pay.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
That's basically a rounding error.
Don't raise it.
No need to match the private sector.
I want to know Oita's median annual income.
Probably around ¥3 million.
If you're gonna claim they're not, at least say what industry you're in.
Most of you are just lying.
Education, especially universities.
If educational institutions are like this, the country's future looks bleak.
Why is it benchmarked against big corporations?
Then nobody will apply anymore~
That's just a civil servant's excuse.
There's no way nobody would apply.
The application rate is high and the turnover rate is low — don't mess around.
It's mostly routine clerical work anyway.
Just automate it.
Look at this ↓
Starting salaries for civil servants working in Tokyo's 23 wards are up 25% from 5 years ago, pushing annual pay up by more than ¥1 million — the 4th straight year of raises.
A 36-year-old section chief's annual salary goes from about ¥9.17 million to about ¥10.22 million, and a 42-year-old department head's goes from about ¥11.83 million to about ¥13 million.
https://www.fnn.jp/articles/-/945789
Being a civil servant is cushy, so it's not like people would stop applying.
Raising their pay with tax money and creating more inequality is just wrong.
This is clearly written by a tax-thief civil servant.
Every minute a civil servant spends posting here is tax money going to waste.
A lot of companies steer clear of people trying to switch out of civil service jobs — they smell like landmines.
At the very least, they won't be prioritized over someone who's worked at a competitor in the same industry and can point to concrete skills and hands-on experience.
Higher-ups from ministries or local governments are a different story, though.
That's just a civil servant's fantasy.
It's weird how civil servants always imagine they'd earn more in the private sector.
All they did was pass the civil service exam once when they were young.
It's no different from an unemployed person with a fancy university degree fantasizing they could've made big money at a major company.
Civil servants really are a nuisance.
They're the biggest nuisance in society.
They drain residents dry with taxes
so that only civil servants survive —
civil servants are basically harassing the residents.
Going forward, AI will handle the hard work anyway,
so you won't need talented people.
Besides, anyone who actually wants to work their butt off wouldn't become a civil servant in the first place lol
Yeah, tax-funded bonuses aren't necessary.
It's the technical staff who are the real waste.
They barely have any real skills and just lean on consultants — no different from clerical workers.
Relying on furusato nozei (hometown tax donations)?
The number of civil servants keeps shrinking.
As it shrinks, the work shifts to outsourcing and temp staffing.
Try looking at temp-staffing job listings sometime.
You'll be surprised how wide a range of work gets outsourced.
Even data entry of personal information gets outsourced.
You're the ones who said to cut civil servants, so you'll just have to live with it.
Civil servants are basically a privileged class at this point.
The point isn't that — it's that their pay is too high once you adjust for cost of living compared to other developed countries, so it should be cut — but instead they just adjust by hiring fewer new people…
AI Overview
The average annual income for full-time (regular) workers in Oita Prefecture is about ¥4.47 million
AI Overview
According to the recommendation announced by the Oita Prefectural Personnel Commission on October 5, 2026,
Oita prefectural employees' average annual salary would be ¥6,345,000 if the raise goes through
In any other developed country they'd bring it down to match that ¥4.47 million…
They only look at the cream-of-the-crop high earners.
And of course, companies that went bankrupt or fell on hard times get written out of existence — they just look at whatever's on top at any given moment.
Well, obviously.
What good would it do to benchmark against third-rate companies?
This place will end up like Yubari eventually (a city that went bankrupt in 2006).
Background and Key Points of the Debate
This recommendation is part of the Oita Prefectural Personnel Commission’s annual routine of surveying private-sector pay in the prefecture and factoring in the National Personnel Authority’s recommendation, marking the fifth straight year of pay raises. Worth noting: the “¥11,232 lower monthly pay, 0.04 months lower bonus” figure in the article refers to the public-private comparison gap found in the survey, which is a separate calculation from the actual recommended increase (¥11,218 monthly, 0.05 months bonus). Some thread comments along the lines of “a gap that small doesn’t justify a raise” were actually conflating these two different figures. The thread split between those who felt civil servant pay should track the wave of private-sector wage hikes since the spring labor negotiations, and those who argued the survey sample skews toward large companies and overstates the real picture — with comparisons to the pay growth rate of Tokyo’s 23-ward employees also coming up.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Speed+) thread “Prefectural Employee Pay and Bonuses: 5th Straight Year of Raise Recommendations, Average Annual Salary Up ¥208,000 — Oita Prefectural Personnel Commission“.
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