Ministry of Health,Labour and Welfare
March 30,2005
Statistics and Information Department,Minister`s Secretariat
Employment Statistics Division
Tel +81-3-5253-1111 Ext. 7609, 7610

Final Report of Monthly Labour Survey
- January 2005 -


1 Cash Earnings

Average monthly total cash earnings per regular employee in January 2005 were 284,507 yen increased by 0.2%.

Contractual cash earnings were 269,796 yen decreased by 0.2% and scheduled cash earnings were 250,792 yen decreased by 0.3%.

Real wage index was increased by 0.2%.

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2 Hours Worked

Average monthly total hours worked per regular employee in January 2005 were 140.3 hours same as the same month of the previous year.

Non-scheduled hours worked in Manufacturing were 14.5 hours increased by 0.7% and its seasonally adjusted figure increased by 1.8% from the previous month.

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3 Employment

Regular employees in January 2005 were increased by 0.7% compared with a year earlier, full-time employees were increased by 0.2%, part-time employees were increased by 2.0%.

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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
284,507yen
 ( 0.2)
 269,796yen
 (-0.2)
 250,792yen
 (-0.3)
 19,004yen
 ( 0.8)
 14,711yen
 ( 12.9)
Hours WorkedTotal Hours Scheduled Non-scheduled Days Worked Non-scheduled
(Manufacturing)
140.3hr.
 ( 0.0)
 130.2hr.
 (-0.2)
 10.1hr.
 ( 2.1)
 18.2days
 < 0.0>
 14.5hr.
 ( 0.7)
Regular employmentRegular employees Full-time Part-time Accession Rate Separation Rate
42,872thou
 ( 0.7)
 31,961thou
 ( 0.2)
 10,911thou
 ( 2.0)
 1.44%
 < 0.15>
 1.87%
 < 0.28>

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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