Japan
Latest Average Wage
−2.2% · 5 years
$50,183
Country Comparison
Japan vs Slovenia
Compare average wages, long-term wage changes and eight consumer price categories using OECD data.
At a Glance
Japan
vs
Slovenia
$50,1832025
Latest Average Wage
Slovenia +26.3%
(vs Japan)
$63,3762025
−2.2%2025
5-Year Wage Change
Slovenia +14.4 pts
(vs Japan)
+12.2%2025
−1.6%2025
10-Year Wage Change
Slovenia +31.0 pts
(vs Japan)
+29.4%2025
59.22024
Overall Price Level
Equal
59.22024
Wages are PPP-adjusted average annual wages; price levels use the United States reference of 100. Years shown are each country's latest reported observation.
How Wages Have Changed
Follow PPP-adjusted average annual wages in constant prices across both economies.
USD PPP, constant prices · missing years shown as gaps, never interpolated
Slovenia
Latest Average Wage
+12.2% · 5 years
$63,376
Wage Milestones
Japan
10 Years Ago
$51,027 (2015)
Historical Peak
$52,662 (1997)
Latest Wage
$50,183 (2025)
Slovenia
10 Years Ago
$48,985 (2015)
Historical Peak
$63,376 (2025)
Latest Wage
$63,376 (2025)
Compare Everyday Price Levels
See how eight consumer price categories compare with the United States reference value of 100.
United States = 100 · Differences shown in index points
Japan (JPN)Slovenia (SVN)
Overall
0.0 index points
100
59.2vs59.2
Food
+26.4 index points
100
112vs85.6
Clothing
−16.4 index points
100
71vs87.4
Housing
+6.3 index points
100
48.5vs42.2
Health
−12.6 index points
100
33.9vs46.5
Transport
−6.6 index points
100
84.4vs91
Recreation
+5.0 index points
100
78.4vs73.4
Restaurants & Accommodation
−0.6 index points
100
72.6vs73.2
What Stands Out
01
Latest Wage Gap
Slovenia's latest average wage is $63,376 for 2025, about 26.3% higher than Japan's $50,183 for 2025 — a percentage worked out directly from the two reported figures. In annual terms the gap comes to about $13,193 on the same PPP basis.
02
Stronger Recent Trend
On the latest one-year change, Slovenia shows the stronger movement at +5.5%, against −0.5% for Japan. The five-year horizon keeps the same ordering: +12.2% against −2.2%. Both percentages are real, PPP-adjusted changes from the reported wage series.
03
Largest Price Gap
Food shows the widest price gap of the comparable categories in 2024: 112 for Japan against 85.6 for Slovenia. That is a separation of 26.4 index points on the US=100 scale, with Japan on the higher side and Slovenia on the lower one. The gap is stated in index points, which are not interchangeable with percentages.
04
Closest Price Category
The closest category is Overall: Japan reads 59.2 and Slovenia 59.2 for 2024 — effectively the same relative price level on the US=100 scale. The next closest is Restaurants & Accommodation at 0.6 index points apart. Two readings this close mean the category sits at nearly the same point of the US=100 scale for both.
Understanding the Comparison
Wage Position
Slovenia holds a clear wage lead in this pairing: $63,376 for 2025, against Japan's $50,183 for 2025. The higher figure exceeds the lower one by 26.3% in relative terms — a percentage calculated from the two reported values — or roughly $13,193 a year. Because both values already sit on the same USD PPP, constant-2025-price footing, the comparison adjusts for price-level differences between the two economies. For scale, neither series has moved by that much within any single reported year, so the gap is structural rather than the product of one unusual observation. Over ten years Japan recorded −1.6% against Slovenia's +29.4%, so the current levels were reached on visibly different long-term paths.
Wage Direction
The two wage series are currently moving in opposite directions, and the separation between them is growing. Japan continues to drift below its peak, with a one-year change of −0.5% and a five-year change of −2.2%. Slovenia sits at the highest point of its series — $63,376 in 2025 is also the historical peak, with a ten-year change of +29.4%. Slovenia is the side gaining in real terms (+12.2% over five years), while Japan records −2.2%, so the five-year measures point away from each other instead of converging. Each percentage is a real, PPP-adjusted change; nominal pay movements are outside what this dataset reports.
Price Profile
Japan's overall consumer price level for 2024 reads 59.2, and Slovenia's reads 59.2, each measured against the United States reference of 100. Neither country is uniformly higher: Japan leads in 3 of the 8 comparable categories and Slovenia in 4, so the profile splits by category rather than by country. Food separates the two most: Japan reads 112 and Slovenia 85.6, 26.4 index points apart. The two sit closest in Overall (59.2 versus 59.2), only 0.0 index points apart. Counted against the US reference of 100, 1 of Japan's 8 reported categories sit above the line, against 0 of Slovenia's 8.
Wage and price data should not be combined into a verdict on which country is better to live in.
