Monolith Soft, the development team behind the excellent Xenoblade Chronicles, has announced that it is increasing salaries for its staff, in a move which is sure to please the hard working employees at the Japanese development studio. Japanese companies in general are trying to entice more developers from overseas.
“Our company has implemented a substantial increase in base salary as well as regular salary increase in line with the rising prices, effective April 2023. Accordingly, the starting salary for new graduates will be increased by approximately 22% to 250,000 yen. In addition, we have updated the application guidelines for new graduates and career hires.”
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Japan is in a state where their birth rate is too low to sustain a healthy population and economy in the future, so all across Japan incentives and wages are going up to attract people to the land of the rising sun. Though this probably isn’t particularly the case with this one, it’s good to see Monolith keep up with the times and pay their employees respectable wages.