Gaming News This historic video game publisher is breaking the bank for its employees!
It’s time for increases in Japanese video game! After Nintendo recently announced a 10% pay rise, a new publisher has just announced it will release funds to increase its headcount. A real breath of fresh air for workers whose salaries have stagnated for years.
SEGA will revise its salaries upwards
On February 7th, Nintendo said he plans to increase base pay by 10%
We recently saw that according to certain sources of From Software employees have reportedly complained about their pay, which are considered too low compared to the cost of living in Tokyo. Today we find out officially SEGA intended to increase all of its employees, and not just a little! In a press release, SEGA Sammy also announced its desire to stabilize its workforce, creating one more pleasant working environmentand attract new workers to reinforce its competitiveness
A significant increase, accompanied by new training courses
From July 1, 2023, the average monthly salary of SEGA employees is to increase by 30% ! This increase will also come through an increase in the base salary to annual salary ratio includes part of the premiums. However, things need to be put into perspective, since Over the year, the average increase will be closer to 15%. That being said, SEGA appeals young graduates is likely to skyrocket given their starting salary will increase from 222,000 yen to 300,000 yen
We are working on reforming our various HR management systems so that employees can develop their potential in a pleasant working environment. We will continue to invest in staff training, not only by developing a compensation system that treats employees according to their role and contribution, but also by expanding measures to support work styles so that each employee can lead their own life, as well as the implementation of training on “SEGA SAMMY College” (…)
This training, offered at Group level, is intended to enable employees to do this work on languages and thus be able to communicate better in the whole world. Finally, SEGA Sammy states that a new early retirement scheme for old-age pensions are implemented under certain conditions. The data subjects could therefore see a different rate of increase depending on the situation.