Paid leave uptake in Japan

Name: Paid leave uptake in Japan
Creator: Corpus

how much of it people actually take

The share of granted annual leave that employees actually take. 100% means the entitlement is used in full.

Median

73.3%

5,306 companies disclose it

Middle half

63.4–82.2

a quarter below 63.4%, a quarter above 82.2%

Highest sector

75.9%

Manufacturing

Lowest sector

60.6%

Accommodations, eating and drinking services

Distribution

5,306 companies. The median, not the mean — a few extreme filings would drag the mean around.

By sector

Sector	Companies	Median	25th pct	75th pct
Manufacturing	1,418	75.9	68.2	83.4
Finance and insurance	155	75.0	65.7	81.8
Medical, health care and welfare	602	75.0	65.3	82.9
Real estate and goods rental and leasing	124	74.8	67.7	83.5
Services, n.e.c.	613	74.6	64.4	85.6
Information and communications	475	74.3	67.0	81.1
Scientific research, professional and technical services	190	74.2	63.0	82.2
Living-related and personal services and amusement services	72	73.0	59.4	92.0
Transport and postal services	212	72.0	58.0	84.2
Construction	449	69.9	60.0	80.0
Education, learning support	62	67.4	58.0	80.0
Wholesale and retail trade	680	67.4	57.0	76.2
Accommodations, eating and drinking services	114	60.6	45.0	74.1

Sectors with at least 50 disclosing companies (13 of them). Manufacturing and Accommodations, eating and drinking services differ by 15.3%. Sectors are the major divisions of Japan's standard industrial classification; company size is not held constant.

How to read this

Companies disclose these figures themselves, under Japan's Youth Employment Promotion Act, and the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare publishes the collected data (Shokuba-Lab). This is not from annual securities reports, so the population differs from the rest of this site — listed and unlisted alike, but only those that disclose.
Companies that disclose nothing are absent. Firms with worse numbers have more reason to stay quiet, so read these figures as the optimistic end of reality.
These are company-level averages. One department can be far worse than the company figure and never show up.
Per-company figures for listed companies are on each company page (company index).

Not sure how this works in Japan? Paid leave: how the system works.

Other benchmarks

Retirement payouts ・ Bonuses ・ Starting salaries ・ Overtime hours ・ Paid leave uptake ・ Men's parental leave ・ Women in management ・ all benchmarks.

Source: Shokuba-Lab (職場情報総合サイト) and the Database of Companies Promoting Women's Participation, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare — open data, compiled by Corpus. 5,306 companies. Not provided or endorsed by any government agency. Japanese edition: 有給休暇の取得率の相場.