Table 7 Trends in Level of Contribution to Cash Earning Rise by Element

Year/Period	Total cash earnings	Real wages
(Full-time employees)	(Part-time employees)	Contractual cash earnings	Scheduled cash earnings	Non-scheduled cash earnings	Special cash earnings
Amount
2001	351,335	419,480	94,074	281,882	263,882	18,000
2002	343,480	413,752	93,234	278,933	261,046	17,887
2003	341,898	414,089	94,026	278,747	260,153	18,594
2004	332,784	413,325	94,229	272,047	253,105	18,942
Difference from the previous year
2001	-1.6	-0.6	-0.2	-1.1	-0.9	-0.9	-0.7	-4.6	-0.2	-3.5	-0.7
2002	-2.9	-1.8	-3.0	-1.7	-1.4	-1.7	-1.3	-1.3	-0.1	-7.9	-1.6
2003	-0.7	0.1	0.8	-0.4	-0.3	-0.7	-0.5	3.5	(0.2)	-2.5	-0.5
2004	-0.7	0.3	0.6	-0.4	-0.3	-0.7	-0.5	4.8	(0.3)	-1.8	-0.3
Difference from the same period of the previous year
2003	I	-1.0	[96.0]	-0.2	0.3	-0.4	-0.4	-0.6	(-0.5)	4.7	-12.8
II	0.8	[95.9]	1.4	1.1	-0.2	-0.2	-0.4	-0.3	2.8	4.6
III	-1.6	[93.5]	-0.7	0.6	-0.4	-0.3	-0.7	-0.6	3.6	-0.2
IV	-1.3	[94.4]	-0.3	1.0	-0.6	-0.4	-0.9	-0.6	3.1	-2.6
2004	I	-1.7	[94.3]	-1.0	2.6	-0.2	-0.2	-0.7	-0.6	5.0	-30.7
II	-1.0	[95.0]	0.3	0.8	-0.4	-0.3	-0.9	-0.7	5.5	-3.2
III	-0.4	[93.2]	0.5	0.5	-0.4	-0.3	-0.8	-0.6	5.0	0.5
IV	0.0	[94.6]	1.2	-1.0	-0.5	-0.4	-0.7	-0.5	3.9	1.2

Source: MHLW, "Monthly Labour Survey"

Notes: 1) Figures in brackets "[ ]" are seasonally adjusted indices of total cash earnings.

The seasonal adjustment method is the US Census Bureau method (X-11 default within X-12-ARIMA).

2) Figures in parentheses "( )" represent the level of contribution to a change in the total cash earnings from the previous year (or the same period in the previous year), calculated by the Office of Counselor for Labour Policy, MHLW. The total change from the previous year of wage types equals a change in the cash earnings for the previous year. (However, totals may not be exact due to rounding.)

3) Figures are averages for whole industries, covering establishments with at least five regular employees.

4) Rates of increase from the previous year are calculated using index figures by correcting gaps and others which are generated from the change in the extracted subject.

Figure 8 Comparison of Trends between Current Profits (per employee) and Wages (average cash earnings per employee) during Recovery Phases

Source: MHLW, "Monthly Labour Survey" (total surveyed industries, establishments with at least 30 regular employees); Ministry of Finance, "Financial Statements Statistics of Corporations by Industries, Quarterly" (all industries, all sizes)

Notes: 1) Changes following the troughs by using the troughs as bases(= 100). Figures are seasonally-adjusted average changes for the subsequent three quarters.

2) Figure for 12 quarters following the troughs were examined for at 4th quarter 1986, 4th quarter 1993, and current (1st quarter 2002), but because there were not 12 quarters from economic trough to peak in the cases of 1st quarter 1983 and 1st quarter 1999, 9 and 7 quarters, respectively, were examined.

Figure 9 Indexes for Non-scheduled Hours Worked in the Manufacturing Industry and Industrial Production (seasonally adjusted)

Note: Establishments with at least five regular employees ("Monthly Labour Survey")