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Originally Posted by GhostBlade
You heard wrong. JETS actually make a bit more a month at 300,000 or 3,600,000 a year. Other companies usually offer 250,000-252,000 a month.
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Correct. The JET wage is 3.6 million yen per year, 300,000 per month. That rate is tax free, but you do have to pay for mandatory health insurance and a retirement pension. You may collect the money from the retirement pension when your contract ends and you leave Japan. It is far more than you need to live on. I was able to save nearly $25,000 in 2 years and bought a car, computer, furniture, and got an apartment when I came back, and I still had many thousands left over to put into savings. And you don't need to live like a hermit to save that much, either... I traveled all over Japan, ate plenty of good food, bought 1500+ manga (and payed $850 to ship them all back to the US), flew back to the US to visit my family after the 1st year, etc.... the savings was after all of those activities and expenses!
Edit to add: A few places will either help with rent or provide accomodations free, but most don't, and mine didn't. I had to pay 48,000 yen/mo for a small, 1 room apartment. I still saved all that money... it really is quite a good salary. I have never earned as much since returning to the US.