{"id":501093,"date":"2026-01-08T10:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/501093\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T10:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T10:21:08","slug":"japans-base-pay-growth-holds-steady-keeping-boj-on-hike-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/501093\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s Base Pay Growth Holds Steady, Keeping BOJ on Hike Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Growth in Japan\u2019s base salaries held firm even as nominal wage gains decelerated sharply, sending mixed signals to the Bank of Japan two weeks before authorities next meet to decide policy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Base pay increased 2% in November from a year earlier, the labor ministry reported Thursday. A more stable measure that strips out bonuses and overtime and reduces sampling distortions also increased 2% for full-time workers, pointing to steady underlying momentum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Growth in Japan\u2019s base salaries held firm even as nominal wage gains decelerated sharply, sending mixed signals to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":501094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64142,64,13656,453,79,266,170,224818,98346,606,153,67,132,68,39774],"class_list":{"0":"post-501093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-bank-of-japan-the","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-earnings","11":"tag-economics","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-inflation","14":"tag-japan","15":"tag-japan-post-insurance-co-ltd","16":"tag-kazuo-ueda","17":"tag-labor","18":"tag-policy","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-wage-growth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115858983187533018","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}