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Major Japanese brokerages are set to raise pay for newly hired college graduates this year as competition for talent intensifies amid a rebound in retail business and a chronic labour shortage.
Daiwa Securities Group Inc. plans to increase base salaries for the 600 school-leavers starting in April from the 245,000 yen ($2,300) a month their predecessors got a year ago, a person with knowledge of the matter said. Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co. is also considering an increase, spokesman Koji Ichihashi said, without giving an amount.
Mizuho Securities Co. said that it will boost the monthly amount to 245,000 yen to compete with Nomura Holdings Inc. and Daiwa. Nomura, by contrast, has no plans to raise graduate pay, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
The increase at Daiwa will make its freshmen the highest paid among the nation’s biggest brokerages, which are competing for staff to work mainly at their retail branches as individuals show a renewed appetite to trade securities. Japanese companies, which traditionally recruit graduates in the spring, are facing pressure to boost wages in the tightest job market
in decades.
“Pay is one of the most significant factors to attract good students,†Japan Securities Dealers Association Chairman Shigeharu Suzuki said in an interview. “Brokers need staff who can persuade clients to purchase investment products with proper explanations and consulting,†said Suzuki, a former chairman of Daiwa.