Average Nintendo Japan employee earns $80,000, works less than 8 hours per day Platform holder's recruitment page also reveals average worker spends 13.5 years at the company

James Batchelor UK Editor Friday 1st March 2019 Share this article Share

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Nintendo has revealed some interesting stats about its work culture, including average working hours and salary.

A recruitment page on the company's Japanese website (spotted by Niko Partners' Daniel Ahmad) offers a breakdown for graduates thinking of applying to the platform holder, and reports that the average annual salary is ¥9.03 million ($80,000) -- although obviously entry-level wages are considerably lower.

Employees also potentially get bonuses in June and December, plus a pay increase every April.

It also reveals the average working day at Nintendo is seven hours, forty-five minutes, with staff in head office starting and finishing slightly earlier than those in development.

As of September 2018, Nintendo employees 2,271 regular employees -- the average age of which is 38.6 years old. Full-time employees stay at the company for an average 13.5 years.

The company plans to hire 81 graduates this year, a significant increase on the 59 it hired last year (which in itself was an incremental improvement on the previous three years).

It's an interesting insight into the working practices of a large games company following the reinvigorated discussion about industry crunch last year, kickstarted by Dan Houser's revelation that some Rockstar staff worked 100-hour weeks on Red Dead Redemption 2.

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