Ministry of Health,Labour and Welfare
November 15,2005
Statistics and Information Department,Minister`s Secretariat
Employment Statistics Division
Tel +81-3-5253-1111 Ext. 7609, 7610

Final Report of Monthly Labour Survey
- September 2005 -


1 Cash Earnings

Average monthly total cash earnings per regular employee in September 2005 were 276,761 yen increased by 0.8%.

Contractual cash earnings were 272,232 yen increased by 0.5% and scheduled cash earnings were 253,572 yen increased by 0.4%.

Real wage index was increased by 1.3%.

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2 Hours Worked

Average monthly total hours worked per regular employee in September 2005 were 151.1 hours same as the same month of the previous year.

Non-scheduled hours worked in Manufacturing were 15.8 hours decreased by 1.2% and its seasonally adjusted figure decreased by 1.7% from the previous month.

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3 Employment

Regular employees in September 2005 were increased by 0.5% compared with a year earlier, full-time employees were increased by 0.5%, part-time employees were increased by 0.5%.

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Note) Unless noted specifically, figures correspond to establishments with 5 or more regular employees.




Cash EarningsTotal Cash Earnings Contractual
Cash Earnings		 Scheduled Non-scheduled Special
Cash Earnings
276,761yen
 ( 0.8)
 272,232yen
 ( 0.5)
 253,572yen
 ( 0.4)
 18,660yen
 ( 1.5)
 4,529yen
 ( 15.0)
Hours WorkedTotal Hours Scheduled Non-scheduled Days Worked Non-scheduled
(Manufacturing)
151.1hr.
 ( 0.0)
 140.9hr.
 ( 0.0)
 10.2hr.
 ( 1.0)
 19.6days
 <-0.1>
 15.8hr.
 (-1.2)
Regular employmentRegular employees Full-time Part-time Accession Rate Separation Rate
43,186thou
 ( 0.5)
 32,219thou
 ( 0.5)
 10,966thou
 ( 0.5)
 1.81%
 <-0.04>
 2.02%
 <-0.01>

Note) ( ) means "Ratio to the same month of the Preceding year in percentage". < > means "Difference from the same month of the Preceding year".

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