Tax Careers in Japan: What 58 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.
- 58
- 33
- 67%
- 55%
What Gets You In
1-2 years of experience
3
3-4 years of experience
18
5-9 years of experience
15
10+ years of experience
3
7%
43% day-to-day or above
Tax accountant (税理士) 64%
CPA / USCPA (公認会計士) 38%
Bookkeeping certification (日商簿記) 17%
Tax
98%
CPA
60%
Excel
29%
Bookkeeping Certification
21%
Audit
19%
Monthly / Annual Closing
17%
Project Management
17%
Stakeholder Management
12%
58 postings
Stated Pay
Median ¥7,500,000 · 32 postings state pay
¥4,800,000
25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries
¥8,500,000
What Comes Next
Senior leadership
6
People management
4
Employers naming each step, of 7 that name one
Who Is Hiring
All Tax openings
58 postings from 33 employers, as of 2026-09-22
Related Functions
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Tax career ladder?
A level-by-level summary of what live Tax 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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