2013 increased by 0.3% compared to the previous year, the increase would be 0.5% from the previous year without the influence of changes in the ratio of workers by business scale. Likewise, the increase of year-end bonus that was 0.3% compared to the previous year would be 0.7% from the previous year without the influence of changes in the ratio of workers by business scale. In this way, as the economy recovers, if the ratio of workers who are given bonus by small-scale businesses to the total workers who receive bonus is high, the average bonus allowance will decrease.

## Figure 8: Transition of the consumer price index

Looking at the trend of consumer prices in 2013, the general index and general index excluding fresh foods (so-called "core") started to pick up due to the weakened yen's exchange rate, showing the first increase in five years since oil prices rose in 2008. General index excluding fresh foods, petroleum products and other special factors (so-called "core-core") is also in an increasing trend from 2013.

Source: "General index" and "general index excluding fresh foods (so-called "core")": "Consumer Price Index" Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; "general index excluding fresh foods, petroleum products and other special factors (so-called "core-core")": "Publication of Consumer Price Index" Cabinet Office

(Note) 1) The "general index excluding fresh foods, petroleum products and other special factors (so-called "core-core")" is equal to the "general index excluding fresh foods (so-called "core")" excluding petroleum products, electricity fee, city gas fee, rice, cut flowers, chicken eggs, fixed-line phone communication charge, medical care fee, nursing care fee, tobacco, the tuition fee of public and private high school. Estimated by the Cabinet Office

2) The figures are on a monthly basis and are available until March 2014.

Table 9: Transition of monthly wage

○ The total sum of cash earnings in 2013 has remained the same or showed a recovery compared with the previous year thanks to the increase in non-scheduled wages and special wages as a result of growing production activities.

Year/period	Total sum of cash earnings	Regularly paid wages	Special wages	Wage of part-time worker	Increase or decrease rate of real wage (total sum of cash earnings under all employment forms)
Full-time worker	Part-time worker	Full-time workers	Part-time workers	Full-time worker	Part-time workers
Scheduled wages	Non-scheduled wages	Scheduled wages	Non-scheduled wages
Amount	330,313	413,342	95,209	269,508	306,414	25,608	89,318	3,174	60,805	81,320	2,717	979	-
2007	08	331,300	414,449	95,873	270,511	307,990	25,211	89,896	3,114	60,789	81,248	2,863	1,001
09	315,294	398,101	94,783	262,357	304,408	21,824	89,316	2,944	52,937	71,869	2,523	1,018	-
10	317,321	402,730	95,790	263,245	304,707	24,075	90,272	2,985	54,076	73,948	2,533	1,018	-
11	316,791	403,563	95,645	262,372	304,373	24,438	90,136	2,913	54,419	74,752	2,596	1,021	-
12	314,126	401,694	97,177	261,584	303,864	25,093	91,595	3,073	52,542	72,737	2,509	1,026	-
13	314,048	404,720	96,644	260,349	303,910	25,721	90,997	3,235	53,699	75,089	2,412	1,033	-
Year-on-year	-1.0	-0.4	-0.7	-0.5	0.0	1.2	-0.6	1.1	-3.4	-2.5	-5.3	0.9	-1.1
2007	-0.3	0.0	1.0	-0.2	0.1	-1.9	0.9	-1.6	-0.4	-0.1	5.7	2.2	-1.8
08	-3.9	-3.4	-1.5	-2.2	-0.7	-13.0	-1.1	-5.8	-11.8	-10.7	-12.3	1.7	-2.6
10	0.5	1.0	1.1	0.3	0.0	10.2	1.2	1.4	1.9	2.6	0.5	-0.1	1.3
11	-0.2	0.1	-0.1	-0.4	-0.2	1.4	-0.1	-2.3	0.6	1.0	2.7	0.3	0.1
12	-0.7	-0.2	1.5	-0.1	0.1	3.0	1.5	5.3	-3.3	-2.3	-3.8	0.5	-0.7
13	0.0	0.7	-0.6	-0.5	0.0	2.5	-0.7	5.3	2.1	3.1	-3.9	0.7	-0.5
Comparison to the same period last year
2011 I	0.0	0.6	0.1	-0.4	-0.1	4.0	-0.1	-1.2	12.9	13.3	30.1	0.2	0.6
II	-0.6	-0.2	-0.6	-0.6	-0.2	-0.9	-0.3	-4.5	-0.1	0.3	-2.3	0.3	0.0
III	-0.4	-0.2	-0.1	-0.3	-0.2	-0.1	-0.1	-2.4	-0.3	0.0	-0.4	0.3	-0.6
IV	-0.1	0.2	0.3	-0.2	-0.2	2.6	0.1	-1.3	0.3	0.7	2.4	0.4	0.3
12 I	0.0	0.1	2.5	0.3	-0.1	4.1	2.5	6.1	-7.6	-6.9	-14.7	0.3	-0.4
II	-0.5	0.1	1.9	0.2	0.1	6.6	1.7	7.8	-2.7	-1.8	7.0	0.5	-0.8
III	-0.7	-0.1	0.5	-0.3	0.1	2.0	0.7	2.6	-3.7	-2.8	-7.4	0.6	-0.3
IV	-1.1	-0.5	1.0	-0.4	0.0	-0.7	1.1	4.8	-3.0	-2.0	-4.3	0.7	-0.9
13 I	-0.6	0.4	-1.3	-0.9	0.1	-1.2	-1.5	3.8	9.6	11.0	-0.9	0.8	0.1
II	0.3	0.9	0.1	-0.4	0.1	1.0	-0.1	7.0	2.4	3.3	-3.3	0.8	0.5
III	-0.4	0.2	-0.5	-0.5	-0.1	3.7	-0.6	5.7	0.3	1.3	-3.0	0.4	-1.7
IV	0.4	1.2	-0.5	-0.2	0.0	6.4	-0.4	4.6	1.9	2.9	-5.2	0.6	-1.3