Hiring Your First Employee in Japan Starts Before the Entity
Search plus notice outruns incorporation by months, and unwinding a first hire costs far more than dissolving an entity.
Japan First Hire Specification
Answer six questions about what Japan revenue depends on and get the job specification that follows, priced against published salary guides.
Question 1 of 6
Industry
What You Can Do With It
Decide the Job Before the Title
Most entry plans pick a title first and discover the job afterwards. Answer what Japan revenue depends on and the shape of the seat falls out of your own answers rather than out of a template.
Price the Decision Before You Brief a Search
Each shape carries a consensus salary band and an agency fee at the engagement model you choose, so the launch-year commitment is on the page before anyone is contacted.
See What the First Hire Commits You To
The first hire specs the next two. The output names what hires two and three become under each shape, which is the part that makes the decision expensive to reverse.
Check a Recommendation You Have Already Received
If a search partner has proposed a country manager, the tool shows whether your own answers support that shape, and says plainly when they point two ways instead.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does the tool tell me who to hire?
No. It returns a specification, not a verdict. The shape follows from the answers you give, and the result lists which of your answers produced it so you can disagree with the reasoning rather than just the conclusion.
What happens if my answers point two ways?
It returns both shapes and names the tradeoff to settle. Entry plans genuinely do sit between two shapes, and a tool that always picks a single winner would be giving false confidence on a decision worth tens of millions of yen.
Where do the salary figures come from?
From a consensus across the published 2026 salary guides, reconciled per role rather than lifted from a single guide. Each figure shows how many guides stand behind it and how far apart they are.
Why does my industry show no figure for country manager?
Because the published guides only price that title in technology and life sciences. Rather than estimate a band nobody published, the tool says the seat is not covered. The other shapes still price normally.
What fee rate does it use?
You choose. Exclusive and contingency both load the market-standard rate for that model, and a custom option takes your own figure. Totals are salary plus agency fee only, and exclude employer social insurance.
Is anything saved or sent anywhere?
No. The tool runs entirely in your browser and stores nothing. Reloading the page starts over.
Guides That Use This Tool
How to Sequence Your First Hires for Japan Market Entry
Five seats, four searches, and one seat you buy rather than hire, with the four searched seats committing ¥116,781,000 of salary, agency fee and employer social insurance in the launch year.
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Take the Specification to Agencies
Agencies that place first hires for foreign companies can work from this. The shape and the salary band carry over, and the intake asks only for what a search needs.