Strategy Consulting Careers in Japan: What 213 Job Postings Ask For

Every figure on this page summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, in aggregate, and is shown the same way to every reader. It is not a description of any individual’s career or prospects.

213
68
48%
40%

What Gets You In

  • 1-2 years of experience

    24

  • 3-4 years of experience

    35

  • 5-9 years of experience

    26

  • 10+ years of experience

    17

15%

28% day-to-day or above

  • CPA / USCPA (公認会計士) 11%

  • PMP 8%

  • Tax accountant (税理士) 8%

  • Bookkeeping certification (日商簿記) 5%

  • Project Management

    36%

  • Data Analysis

    24%

  • Stakeholder Management

    20%

  • Excel

    6%

213 postings

Levels by Experience

1–2 years

13%

17% day-to-day or above

  • PMP 25%

24 postings

3–4 years

11%

43% day-to-day or above

  • CPA / USCPA (公認会計士) 14%

  • Stakeholder Management 17% (+13)

35 postings

5+ years

14%

41% day-to-day or above

  • CPA / USCPA (公認会計士) 12%

43 postings

Stated Pay

All postings

Median ¥12,000,000 · 85 postings state pay

¥8,000,000

25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries

¥16,000,000

Working Conditions

33%
15%
  • Fully remote

    22

  • Hybrid

    40

  • On-site

    0

211 postings

What Comes Next

  • People management

    10

  • Senior leadership

    7

  • Specialist track

    6

Employers naming each step, of 12 that name one

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Strategy Consulting career ladder?

A level-by-level summary of what live Strategy Consulting job postings tracked on AirTA ask for. Levels come from job titles (manager, director, senior and so on) and, separately, from the years of experience a posting states. Every figure is a statistic over those postings, refreshed daily.

Where do the numbers come from?

From the job postings AirTA collects from employer career sites and applicant tracking systems. Years of experience, certifications and management experience are read from the posting text; the level is read from the title; pay is the salary the employer stated on the posting. Nothing is estimated for an individual.

Why is there no pay figure at some levels?

A pay band publishes only when at least 30 postings at that level state a salary, and a median only from 10. Senior-level pay is rarely published in Japan, so the honest answer at some levels is no figure rather than a figure borrowed from another level.

What does "candidate for" mean?

Some postings are titled 「マネージャー候補」 or "Manager Candidate": the employer states in the title that the opening is for someone who will grow into that level. The ladder counts those titles as the employer wrote them. It does not predict anyone’s promotion.

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