One in four South Korean employees earn more than 4 million won a month... ”The highest amount ever”

In the first half of this year, one in four Korean company employees was estimated to have a monthly salary of more than 4 million won (about 440,000 yen). However, due to the impact of sluggish domestic demand, the number of people employed in the construction and wholesale/retail industries was low.
On the 8th, Statistics Korea released a report titled "Industry and Occupation Characteristics of Employed Persons in the Regional Employment Survey for the First Half of 2024 (April)," which included these findings.
As of April this year, among all employed persons, the breakdown by wage level of wage earners (22,139,000 people) was as follows:
The largest proportion of workers was those earning between 2 million and 3 million won (approximately 221,196 to 331,795 yen), at 32.1%.
10,000 won or more (25.9%), 3 million to 4 million won (21.9%), 1 million to 2 million won (approximately 110,600 yen to 221,196 yen) (10.7%), 1 million
The next highest was those earning less than 4 million won (9.4%). In particular, the percentage of high-income earners earning more than 4 million won increased by 1.9 percentage points (p) from the previous year, showing a large increase.
Looking at the number of employees by 232 industry sub-categories, the restaurant industry had the most with 1,666,000 employees, followed by non-residential welfare facility management (1,553,000 employees), crop
In order, the agricultural industry (1.375 million people) was ranked second. Compared to a year ago, the building construction industry (-79,000 people), the employment arranging and temporary staffing industry (-42,000 people), the home appliance and information and communication equipment retail industry (
The number of employed people in the real estate-related services industry and the building and industrial facility cleaning and pest control services industry also fell by 17,000 people each due to the sluggish construction industry.
Looking at the sub-categories, the largest declines were in general construction, at 66,000 people, and retail trade (excluding automobiles), at 64,000 people.
Employment in domestic demand-related occupations was also sluggish.
The number of unskilled workers in the construction and mining industries decreased by 56,000, while sales workers decreased by 29,000.
The increase in employment was seen in administrative staff (91,000) and care and medical service workers (49,000).
000 people), and food service workers (42,000 people).