Working at JAMSTEC
Salaries and Working Hours
JAMSTEC offers competitive salaries and benefits that are commensurate with experience and skills. Salaries are paid monthly on the 15th of each month. (For employees on daily wage contracts, payment is made in the following month.)
If the 15th is a non-working day, the payment will be made on the 14th; if the 14th is also a non-working day, the payment will be made on the 16th.
(If an employee commences working on or after the 15th, which is a pay day, the salary for their initial hire month will be calculated on a per-diem basis and will be paid the following month.)
[Working hours]
- Opening hours: 9:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
- Rest period: 12:15 p.m.–1:00 p.m. (45 minutes)
(If an employee works overtime from 5:45 p.m., the period from 5:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. will also be a rest period.)
[Discretionary labor system]
Persons working under this system may decide at their own discretion when to work,
regardless of the above-mentioned opening and closing times, and will be deemed to have worked for a total of 8 hours and 15 minutes per day. Employees under this system should ensure that they take a rest of a total of 60 minutes per day.
[Flextime system]
Persons working under this system may determine their own work schedules,
regardless of the above-mentioned opening and closing times, but must work during
the core times and satisfy the set total required work hours for each month.
- Core time: 10:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
- Flexible times: 8:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. / 4:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
- Total hours worked in a month = Prescribed working days of the month × 7.75 hours
Employees may opt to work under the flextime system to improve their work-life balance, even when it is not required by their work or under the staggered-shift system (the latter applies in cases where permission is granted for those raising pre-school children, taking elementary-school-age children to and from after-school childcare facilities, or providing nursing care to a family member).