Average salary by prefecture — all 47 Japanese prefectures

Average estimated annual income for all 47 prefectures of Japan, grouped by region (Hokkaido / Tohoku / Kanto / Chubu / Kansai / Chugoku / Shikoku / Kyushu-Okinawa). Click any prefecture for the full age × gender breakdown.

National average (all workers, all industries): ¥5,078,000 (2023 survey)

Hokkaido

Hokkaido¥4,509,000-11.2%

Tohoku

Aomori¥3,839,000-24.4%
Iwate¥4,089,000-19.5%
Miyagi¥4,551,000-10.4%
Akita¥4,024,000-20.8%
Yamagata¥4,013,000-21.0%
Fukushima¥4,387,000-13.6%

Kanto

Ibaraki¥4,999,000-1.6%
Tochigi¥5,353,000+5.4%
Gunma¥4,718,000-7.1%
Saitama¥4,969,000-2.1%
Chiba¥4,870,000-4.1%
Tokyo¥5,808,000+14.4%
Kanagawa¥5,710,000+12.4%

Chubu

Niigata¥4,238,000-16.5%
Toyama¥4,700,000-7.4%
Ishikawa¥4,639,000-8.6%
Fukui¥4,480,000-11.8%
Yamanashi¥4,705,000-7.3%
Nagano¥4,585,000-9.7%
Gifu¥4,691,000-7.6%
Shizuoka¥4,959,000-2.3%
Aichi¥5,320,000+4.8%

Kansai

Mie¥4,960,000-2.3%
Shiga¥4,902,000-3.5%
Kyoto¥5,019,000-1.2%
Osaka¥5,456,000+7.4%
Hyogo¥5,147,000+1.4%
Nara¥4,689,000-7.7%
Wakayama¥4,726,000-6.9%

Chugoku

Tottori¥3,898,000-23.2%
Shimane¥4,268,000-16.0%
Okayama¥4,632,000-8.8%
Hiroshima¥4,800,000-5.5%
Yamaguchi¥4,688,000-7.7%

Shikoku

Tokushima¥4,238,000-16.5%
Kagawa¥4,452,000-12.3%
Ehime¥4,415,000-13.1%
Kochi¥4,246,000-16.4%

Kyushu & Okinawa

Fukuoka¥4,705,000-7.3%
Saga¥4,271,000-15.9%
Nagasaki¥4,019,000-20.9%
Kumamoto¥4,237,000-16.6%
Oita¥4,244,000-16.4%
Miyazaki¥3,901,000-23.2%
Kagoshima¥4,136,000-18.6%
Okinawa¥3,923,000-22.7%

Source: Basic Survey on Wage Structure (2023), Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Prefecture-level data is published biennially; the most recent published year is shown.