HeatherLocklearRocks 1 Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 Taking out all of the taxes - income tax, health insurance, town/prefecture etc - over the year what % of your total salary do you get to keep? Just worked mine out, 77%. Wonder what that number will be in other countries. Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 Don't know, actually will find out will be interesting. Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 About 71% off the top of my head But that includes: - my rent - my wife's pension insurance payments (she doesn't work so it comes from my salary) - some random things like lunch at work Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 LESS THAN THAT!!!!! UK taxes. Not nice. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 thats right about where I am too. Getting the summer bonus added a spring in my step Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 I keep track of these things 2007: 78.8% 2008: 77.1% 2009: 75.7% (projected) Chunks of cash are always nice to get, but if you know how much "bonus" is going to be and it is not performance related, so effectively part of the salary they are hardly that exciting. Not for me anyway. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 I think a performance bonus is a bit harder to evaluate for a teacher than a salaryman who is in sales. Whether its known or not, I dont care, 7 months worth of salary as bonuses/year is quite a chunk of change Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 It sure is. Do you get performance bonus then? I would suspect that is a minority kind of bonus! Anyway lets cash. Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 I get 19 months (roughly) of my base 本俸 salary/year and about 6/7 months of that comes in 2 bonuses/year: summer and winter. Summer is smaller than winter, but it doesnt matter....its all good Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 I get a bonus but it is only once year and only about a months salary. I guess this year it will less than the proposed amount due to economic situation. I'm not in sales though, just a regular salaryman. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 I much prefer to get the "bonus" (yeah, right) in even monthly throughout the year. (Especially this year because I have been able to take advantage of the exchange rates each month). The usual "bonus" system here - where it is pretty much fixed up front and you know what you will be getting, not performance related) is a bit silly if you ask me, I wonder how that system started and why. Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 It reduces your window for leaving. If you are going to leave, better to do it right after getting that bonus otherwise you are wasting money. It's just another way to tie you down. Also, its good for the economy because some % of people tend to go out and spend some of it. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 Last year, some nut jobs got about 36 months bonus. So even got more than 50 months. They were exceptional cos they got paid for the percentage they made for their clients. Totally nuts. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 Percentage wise, I get taxed at 15%. Link to post Share on other sites
griller 9 Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 15% includes income tax + other taxes + health? If it does I'm well pissed at what I have to pay. Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 no health contribution, the gov takes that up. 15% max tax rate. No consumer tax either Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 does it include state pension? Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 the Mandatory Provident Fund, MPF is the pension scheme. Which requires a 5% contribution from participants. My pension scheme is run by the compnay and it is non-contributory. So I just pay 15% income tax, no health insurance, 'cept the ones I chose on top, no pension contributions, 'cept the policies I bought on top. Comapany tax is also a mere 16% Link to post Share on other sites
mina2 6 Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 I'm going to sulk for the rest of the day now. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 I get no bonus cause I am a mug in an ALT job Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 Whilst I always thought it would be nice to earn a fat bonus in both summer & winter in Japan, all those I knew that got very hefty bonuses worked 6 days a week and had little life outside of work. Therefore I came to the conclusion that the "bonuses" were compensation for the life taken away from the suckers. They should be just paid more monthly, but then they wouldn't feel special come bonus time. Performance bonuses, I can agree with to a certain extent coz that's why I'm getting (though not quiet as big due to the GFC) Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 I never worry about any of this stuff. As long as I have enough to enjoy a decent lifestyle that's all I care about. Never cared about trying to become mega-rich. One of the main reasons I moved to live in Hokkaido is because lifestyle is extremely important to me and making lots of money is not. Link to post Share on other sites
yoroshiku onegai shimasu 2 Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 I'm somewhere in between. I always have a good moan when a years worth of tax comes in June though. Link to post Share on other sites
lin 0 Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 Works out about 80% Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 Originally Posted By: thursday no health contribution, the gov takes that up. 15% max tax rate. No consumer tax either Well KRudd has to get his pot of cash to splash on ther recession from somewhere and I suppose that somewhere is MY FAMILY. Coz even with creative accounting we are saying goodbye to WAY more than that percentage wise. More than 40%, how much more I am not sure. Welcome to Australia - the highest taxing country in the developed world (no references to back that claim up - purely speculation!) Link to post Share on other sites
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