Data and AI salaries in Japan
The median senior Data and AI salary in Japan is ¥12,500,000 per year, with the market band from ¥10,000,000 to ¥15,000,000 (daijob.com, 2026-08-31).
By seniority
senior (Low quality data)
- P25
- ¥10,000,000
- Median
- ¥12,500,000
- P75
- ¥15,000,000
- per month
- ¥1,041,667
About ¥1,041,667 per month at the median.
No AI/data-science occupation exists in official statistics. Single recruiter source: Daijob 2026 Salary Benchmarks (published 2026-01-19): AI/ML Specialist Tokyo 10-15M JPY; band endpoints used as p25/p75, midpoint as p50. Context from e-Stat 2025: nearest official IT occupations at 45-49 are 'other information processing/communications engineers' 7.02M and 'systems consultants/designers' 12.26M annualized; the recruiter band is Tokyo/international-market skewed. Treat as Low.
Sources for these numbers
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