Winter bonus “local officials are higher” Kasumigaseki’s career bureaucrats are dissatisfied | Smart FLASH[光文社週刊誌]



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Winter bonus

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On December 10, most civil servants across the country will receive a winter bonus. The amount has been reduced by 0.05 months (actually 5%) to close the gap with private companies, and the average amount is reported to be about 650,000 yen, about 30,000 yen less than in 2019. This will be the third consecutive year of price cuts.

What do you think of the civil servants who suffered the increase in business due to the crown disaster in 2020? Mr. A (40-year-old woman), a staff member of the Osaka prefectural government, currently requesting to refrain from going out unnecessarily and shorten the business hours of some restaurants, says.

“Despite the increase in work at Corona, the bonus is a cut. It is not only in 2020, but in fact it is decided to cut back to 2021. The motivation of our staff is reduced tremendously and we will retire. Many people are considering … “

Mr. B (a man in his 40s), a bureaucrat working for the central ministries, disagrees with Mr. A.

“We did not reduce the amount of the bonus. However, lesser known local government employees have a higher base salary than national government employees. There are also places where unions are strong.

The base salary, which is the base of the bonus, has not yet been lowered because it is said to be a “sanctuary”, and even if it is lowered, the bonuses of these local government employees should be higher than us. “

In fact, when this magazine showed us the salary details of the two people, the bonus for Mr. A, an employee of the Osaka prefectural government, was about 100,000 yen higher than the bonus for Mr. B, a bureaucrat from Central government agency career of the same generation.

However, the bonus pay of 650,000 yen on average under the crown recession is a “high salary” enough. Mr. C (male), who works for a general company in his 40s, expressed despair and resentment.

“In the winter of 2020, the bonus was zero due to the crown accident. When the crown turmoil was just beginning, remote work reduced work stress and I was quite happy. Falling into a desperate situation …

After all, some payments, like mortgages, were made on the premise of “bonus payments” as a matter of course. The most painful thing is the revolving pay that has accumulated due to the increase in card payments due to the cut in overtime due to the influence of Corona.

My wife says the mortgage “breaks my savings and does something about it,” but I am concerned when I think that the 2021 summer bond might be in a similar situation. Christmas and New Years are coming soon, but of course I can’t do anything.

Still, do civil servants complain even at an average of 650,000 yen? You say it is tied to the private sector wage level, but it is completely different. If you have more jobs and want to quit, replace me. “

In 2020, when the world was equally devastated, there was a fork in “heaven and hell” on the bonus front.



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