Last post I laid out some salaries that I found in a book at the local family mart. It's now updated a bit (the only one I was really off on was the cop; holy crap they are really rich!). I also picked up these salaries today:Doctor: 1,100 man. Bit lower than an American doctor I think.
Professor: 1,130 man.
taxi driver: 300 man.
manga-ka: 240 man. Another secret dream job disappoints.
writer: 330 man. Yet another secret dream job.
The book may be enjoyable to read; I found the Japanese was about right for my level. Each entry seems to be, "you may think it's easy to be x, but actually..." It was also fairly cheap, but I was more interested in the scary stories collection to its right (-_^)
Professor is higher than reality. Lower-end makes about 600man, average around 900man.
ReplyDelete11 mill for a professor refers to full professors at (major) state universities. As Alex said, the the lower end is definitely lower.
ReplyDeleteAnd me who came to japan to dreaming of becoming a mangaka... oh well, money is not everything, right? right?
ReplyDeleteMan im surprised that Writers and taxi-drivers are so close to each other...
ReplyDeleteVery sad :(
Glad to see (even at the lower end) that professors still have good salaries. I only wish the normal school teacher was paid a bit more.
Sigh.