Global Salary Comparison โ๏ธ
Korea vs USA vs Japan comparison
Comparison Settings
โ $71,429 USD
โ ยฅ10,810,810 JPY
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Assumptions
- KR: Single, No dependents
- US: Single, No State Tax (0%)
- JP: Single, Social Ins applied
Monthly Net Pay Comparison
Who gets paid the most?
USA
๐ฐ๐ท Korea6,612,027์
97%
๐บ๐ธ USA
6,830,600์($4,879)
100%
๐ฏ๐ต Japan
5,974,066 KRW(ยฅ645,845)
87%
Net Pay Trend (Salary Range)
* This graph compares the actual monthly take-home pay for each salary range.
Winner by Salary Range
| Salary (KRW) | Korea | USA | Japan | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| โฉ30,000,000 | 2,252,134 KRW | 2,229,083 KRW ($1,592.202) | 1,984,300 KRW (ยฅ214,519) | Korea |
| โฉ50,000,000 | 3,602,332 KRW | 3,580,141 KRW ($2,557.244) | 3,219,416 KRW (ยฅ348,045) | Korea |
| โฉ70,000,000 | 4,853,433 KRW | 4,919,308 KRW ($3,513.792) | 4,341,422 KRW (ยฅ469,343) | USA |
| โฉ100,000,000 | 6,612,027 KRW | 6,830,600 KRW ($4,879) | 5,974,066 KRW (ยฅ645,845) | USA |
| โฉ150,000,000 | 8,785,987 KRW | 9,761,850 KRW ($6,972.75) | 8,344,036 KRW (ยฅ902,058) | USA |
| โฉ200,000,000 | 11,088,631 KRW | 12,634,983 KRW ($9,024.988) | 10,665,657 KRW (ยฅ1,153,044) | USA |
| โฉ300,000,000 | 15,594,337 KRW | 18,569,760 KRW ($13,264.114) | 14,766,320 KRW (ยฅ1,596,359) | USA |
Global Net Pay Comparison (KR vs US vs JP)
Simply looking at the *number* of your annual salary is misleading when considering working abroad because **tax systems** and **cost of living** vary drastically. Beyond just currency conversion, you must compare the **'Real Net Pay'** after deducting actual Income Tax and Social Insurance in each country.
| Category | ๐ฐ๐ท Korea (KR) | ๐บ๐ธ USA (US) | ๐ฏ๐ต Japan (JP) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Key Deductions | 4 Major Ins (9.3%~) Income Tax (Progressive) Local Tax (10%) | Federal Tax State Tax (0~13%) FICA (7.65%) | Social Ins (approx 15%) Income Tax (Progressive) Resident Tax (10%, Deferred) |
| Tax Return | Year-end Settlement (Systematic) | Tax Return (Self-filing) | Year-end Adjustment or Final Return |
| Notes | Non-taxable benefits (Meals, etc.) | Health Ins separate (Very Expensive) | Resident Tax billed next year |
๐งฎ Methodology & Assumptions
- This calculator assumes a standard 'Single (1-person household)' worker.
- **Exchange Rate:** All amounts are converted to 'KRW' based on the real-time (or user-set) exchange rate.
- **US State Tax:** Calculated based on states with **0% State Tax** (Texas, Washington, Florida, etc.) to show the *maximum* net pay. (CA/NY would be lower)
- **JP Resident Tax:** Although charged from the 2nd year, it is *included* in the calculation assuming long-term employment. (First-year take-home may be higher)
๐ก Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Q. US salary is 1.5x higher, isn't life much better?
- Not necessarily. This calculator only compares 'Taxes'. In the US, **Rent** is 2-3 times higher than in Korea, and **Health Insurance Premiums** or **Dining Out (Tips)** are very expensive. Even if net pay is 1.5x, savings might be similar or less after living expenses.
- Q. Why does Japan deduct so much?
- Japan has high 'Social Security Costs'. Specifically, **Resident Tax (10%)** and Pension rates are higher than Korea. However, companies often provide **Full Transport Coverage** and **Housing Allowances**, so you should consider **Total Compensation** including these benefits.
- Q. Are the exchange rates fixed?
- No. You can change them anytime in the 'Settings' panel above. Note that in a **Strong Dollar** environment, converted US salaries may appear overwhelmingly advantageous.
๊ตญ๊ฐ๋ณ ์ค์๋ น์ก ์๋ฒฝ ๋น๊ต (KR vs US vs JP)
์ฐ๋ด์ *์ซ์*๋ง ๋ณด๊ณ ํด์ธ ์ทจ์ ์ ๊ฒฐ์ ํ๊ธฐ์ ๊ฐ๊ตญ์ **์ธ๊ธ ์์คํ **๊ณผ **๋ฌผ๊ฐ**๊ฐ ๋๋ฌด๋ ๋ค๋ฆ ๋๋ค. ๋จ์ํ ํ์จ์ ๊ณฑํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋์ด, ๊ฐ ๋๋ผ์์ ์ค์ ๋ก ๋ผ๊ฐ๋ ์ธ๊ธ(Income Tax)๊ณผ ์ฌํ๋ณดํ๋ฃ(Social Insurance)๋ฅผ ๊ณต์ ํ **'์ง์ง ๋ด ์์ ๋ค์ด์ค๋ ๋(Net Pay)'**์ ๋น๊ตํด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค.
| ๊ตฌ๋ถ | ๐ฐ๐ท ๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ (KR) | ๐บ๐ธ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ (US) | ๐ฏ๐ต ์ผ๋ณธ (JP) |
|---|---|---|---|
| ํต์ฌ ๊ณต์ ํญ๋ชฉ | 4๋๋ณดํ (9.3%~) ์๋์ธ (๋ณธ์ธ ๋์ง์ธ) ์ง๋ฐฉ์๋์ธ (10%) | Federal Tax (์ฐ๋ฐฉ์ธ) State Tax (์ฃผ์ธ, 0~13%) FICA (7.65%) | ์ฌํ๋ณดํ (์ฝ 15%) ์๋์ธ (๋์ง์ธ) ์ฃผ๋ฏผ์ธ (์ฝ 10%, ํ๋ฉ) |
| ์ฐ๋ง์ ์ฐ/ํ๊ธ | 13์์ ์๊ธ (์ฒด๊ณ์ ) | Tax Return (์ง์ ์ ๊ณ ) | ์ฐ๋ง์ ์ฐ or ํ์ ์ ๊ณ |
| ํน์ด ์ฌํญ | ๋น๊ณผ์ธ ์๋ ๋ฑ ํํ | ์๋ฃ๋ณดํ ๋ณ๋(๋งค์ฐ ๋น์) | ์ฃผ๋ฏผ์ธ๊ฐ ๋ค์ ํด์ ์ฒญ๊ตฌ๋จ |
๐งฎ ๋น๊ต ๊ธฐ์ค ๋ฐ ๊ฐ์ (Methodology)
๋ณธ ๊ณ์ฐ๊ธฐ๋ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ผ๋ฐ์ ์ธ '1์ธ ๊ฐ๊ตฌ(์ฑ๊ธ)' ๊ทผ๋ก์๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ ํ์ฌ ๋น๊ตํฉ๋๋ค.
- ํ์จ ์ ์ฉ: ์ฌ์ฉ์๊ฐ ์ ๋ ฅํ ์ค์๊ฐ(ํน์ ์ค์ ํ) ํ์จ์ ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก ๋ชจ๋ ๊ธ์ก์ 'KRW(์ํ)'๋ก ํ์ฐํ์ฌ ๋น๊ตํฉ๋๋ค.
- ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฃผ์ธ(State Tax): ํ ์ฌ์ค, ์์ฑํด, ํ๋ก๋ฆฌ๋ค ๋ฑ '์ฃผ์ธ๊ฐ ์๋(0%)' ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ์ค์ผ๋ก ํ์ฌ ์ค์๋ น์ก์ *์ต๋์น*๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค๋๋ค. (์บ๋ฆฌํฌ๋์/๋ด์ ๋ฑ์ ๋ ๋ฎ์์ง)
- ์ผ๋ณธ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ์ธ: ์ ์ฌ 2๋ ์ฐจ๋ถํฐ ๋ถ๊ณผ๋์ง๋ง, ์ฅ๊ธฐ ๊ทผ์์ ๊ฐ์ ํ์ฌ *ํฌํจ*ํด์ ๊ณ์ฐํ์ต๋๋ค. (์ฒซ ํด ์ค์๋ น์ ๋ ๋ง์ ์ ์์)
๐ก ์์ฃผ ๋ฌป๋ ์ง๋ฌธ (FAQ)
- Q. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฐ๋ด์ด 1.5๋ฐฐ์ธ๋ฐ, ์ค์ ์ํ์ ๋ ์ฌ์ ๋กญ์ง ์๋์?
- ๊ผญ ๊ทธ๋ ์ง๋ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด ๊ณ์ฐ๊ธฐ๋ '์ธ๊ธ'๋ง ๊ณ์ฐํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ ์์ธ(Rent)๊ฐ ํ๊ตญ์ 2~3๋ฐฐ์ ๋ฌํ๋ฉฐ, ํ์ฌ ์๋ฃ๋ณดํ๋ฃ(Premium)๋ ์ธ์๋น(Tip ํฌํจ)๊ฐ ๋งค์ฐ ๋น์๋๋ค. ์ค์๋ น์ก์ด 1.5๋ฐฐ๋ผ๋ ์ํ๋น๋ฅผ ์ ํ๋ฉด ์ ์ถ์ก์ ๋น์ทํ๊ฑฐ๋ ์คํ๋ ค ์ ์ ์๋ ์์ต๋๋ค.
- Q. ์ผ๋ณธ์ ์ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๋ง์ด ๋ผ๋์?
- ์ผ๋ณธ์ '์ฌํ๋ณด์ฅ๋น์ฉ'์ด ๋์ต๋๋ค. ํนํ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ์ธ(10%)์ ํ์์ฐ๊ธ ์์จ์ด ํ๊ตญ๋ณด๋ค ๋๊ฒ ์ค์ ๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋์ ๊ตํต๋น ์ ์ก ์ง๊ธ, ์ฃผํ ์๋น ๋ฑ ํ๊ตญ์๋ ์๋ ๊ธฐ์ ๋ณต์ง ์ ๋๊ฐ ๋ฐ๋ฌํด ์์ด, ์ด ๋ณด์(Total Compensation) ์ฐจ์์์ ์ ๊ทผํด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค.
- Q. ํ์จ 1,400์/900์์ ๊ณ ์ ์ธ๊ฐ์?
- ์๋๋๋ค. ์๋จ์ '๋น๊ต ์กฐ๊ฑด ์ค์ ' ํจ๋์์ ์ํ๋ ํ์จ๋ก ์ธ์ ๋ ๋ณ๊ฒฝํ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ต๊ทผ ๊ณ ํ์จ ๊ธฐ์กฐ(Strong Dollar)์์๋ ์ํ ํ์ฐ ์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฐ๋ด์ด ์๋์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ฆฌํ๊ฒ ๋ณด์ผ ์ ์์์ ๊ฐ์ํด์ผ ํฉ๋๋ค.