Summer Bonus Survey 2023 (as of April 20, interim tally) – published on Nikkei/Nikkei Business Daily/Nikkei MJ

The average payment was 852,012 yen, up 3.4% from the previous year. It was a positive for the second consecutive year, surpassing the 2020 result (807,835 yen) before the corona disaster. The growth rate top was All Nippon Airways (806,058 yen) which scored twice compared to last summer, and Star Seimitsu was the top payout with 2,115,161 yen. Unlike the trend of wage increases, which exceeded the previous year's level in almost all industries, the pattern is patchy by industry.