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TOKYO -- Japanese companies have raised wages by an average of 5.49% this year, little changed from 2024, as the pace of increases in manufacturing slows while other sectors catch up, a Nikkei survey shows.
The overall increase was 0.08 percentage point smaller than last year's 5.57%, which was the highest since 1991. This year marks the first decline in four years.
