Median salary in the US is barely $45k a year:
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/central.html
So what you're describing is even worse.
Median salary in the US is barely $45k a year:
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/central.html
So what you're describing is even worse.
The above was comparing the average in Japan to the average in the US. If you want to compare medians, it’s about $43,000 in the U.S. (2023) versus 3.96 million Yen (2025). See: https://e-housing.jp/post/average-salary-in-japan-2024-insig.... At current exchange rates that’s about $25,000. So that’s the exact same 1.7x ratio as for the averages.