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Male respondents had more experience than female respondents. While men had a median of 8 years of professional experience, women had 5.5 years. Furthermore, men had a 75th percentile of 12 years of experience compared to 9 for women.
This partially explains why the median compensation of male respondents was 46% higher than that of female respondents. However, when analyzing respondents by experience level and gender, women who had 6 or fewer years of experience actually had a median compensation that was the same as men. For more experienced women, though, the gap was considerable. Among those with 7–9 years experience, men earned 62% more than women. For those with 10 or more years of experience, men earned 67% more.
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Link to section🧑💼 Professional Experience
The median respondent had 7 years of professional software development experience.
Compensation grew steadily with experience. Respondents with less than 1 year of experience made a median of ¥2.8 million, while those with 20+ years of experience made a median of ¥14.2 million.
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Respondents had lived in Japan for a median of 5 years.
While respondents from India made up 7% of respondents overall, they made up 14% of those who had lived in Japan for less than a year.