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Originally Posted by noodle
As for the "this is japan, not the rest of the world" remark, I think you should take a look at the rest of the world! Japan isn't so "unique" when it comes to hired foreigners!
EDIT; I forgot to mention. I spoke to my dad about this who asked an old French colleague of his that went to to work as a Marine Mechanical Engineer with 7 years experience. His starting pay was 750,000 JPY / Month
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They would be taking you on at the bottom of the ladder, which is pretty normal if you haven`t been asked to come to work for them from some other company.
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Unless the company recruited him because he was working with them on a project or on the exact same system/machinery/etc - he will start at the same place as a new engineering graduate.
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The OP doesn`t clarify if this is his situation. If they are trying to recruit him in on that type of pay - then it is low... But as I have been trying to say... If he/she is applying to jobs in Japan and got accepted to one with that level of pay it will be normal.
Even for foreigners with 5 years experience.
It`s fine if you don`t want to believe me - you don`t have to. But I think people should be aware of this and know that 99% of the companies out there aren`t huge international conglomerates that will value native foreign language ability enough to pay you more than what they pay everyone else - regardless of experience. Japan is currently a hot spot for huge areas of the world looking for work, and engineering is pretty darned popular as a career choice. When you have a market flooded with Asian applicants having 10+ years of experience perfectly willing to start out at minimum pay (As is the case with a ton of Indian and Chinese engineers these days) competing with huge market of fresh grads with few job opportunities... The expat dream of hopping into a posh position getting 750,000/month is pretty much just that these days - a dream.
But feel free to hold out incredibly high hopes and ignore people who do have connections in the Japanese engineering field.