United States-owned·Information & communications·Tokyo·1001–5000 employees

Microsoft in Japan

Japan entity: 日本マイクロソフト株式会社 · Parent: Microsoft Corporation · Corporate number 2010401092245 · 日本語

The Japan subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation (United States), registered as 日本マイクロソフト株式会社, reports in the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's women's-advancement database that 20.0% of its managers are women, women's average pay is 90.0% of men's among regular employees, 85.0% of eligible fathers took childcare leave (as of July 2026).

Women's advancement and leave

Women in management
20.0%
Women's pay as % of men's, all
88.9%
Women's pay as % of men's, regular
90.0%
Women's pay as % of men's, non-regular
100.6%
Men taking childcare leave
85.0%
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The pay figures compare women's average pay with men's, not pay for the same job. Data as of July 2026.

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Questions this page answers

What share of managers are women at Microsoft in Japan?
20.0%, as reported to MHLW's women's-advancement database (as of July 2026).
What is the gender pay gap at Microsoft in Japan?
Women's average pay as a percentage of men's: 88.9% across all employees, 90.0% among regular employees, 100.6% among non-regular employees. This compares average pay, not pay for the same job.
How many fathers take childcare leave at Microsoft in Japan?
85.0% of eligible men took childcare leave.

Japan Human Capital Data 2026

For this employer and about 36,000 others: overtime, paid leave taken, women among officers, supervisors and new hires, tenure and ten-year retention by gender, with medians and percentiles for its industry and size band, and every foreign-owned subsidiary flagged with its parent. In a members' dashboard and as Excel and CSV.

What Professional includes

Source: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, women's-advancement database (open data), as of 2026-10-06; figures are self-reported by each employer and checked for plausibility by The Hardest Market. 女性の活躍推進企業データベースオープンデータ(2026年10月6日時点)を加工して作成.