United States-owned·Wholesale & retail·Tokyo·1001–5000 employees

Caterpillar in Japan

Japan entity: 日本キャタピラー合同会社 · Parent: Caterpillar Inc. · Corporate number 5021001031564 · 日本語

The Japan subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc. (United States), registered as 日本キャタピラー合同会社, reports in the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's women's-advancement database that women's average pay is 68.6% of men's among regular employees, 11.3% of eligible fathers took childcare leave (as of November 2025).

Women's advancement and leave

Women in management
Not published
Women's pay as % of men's, all
66.6%
Women's pay as % of men's, regular
68.6%
Women's pay as % of men's, non-regular
64.3%
Men taking childcare leave
11.3%

The pay figures compare women's average pay with men's, not pay for the same job. Data as of November 2025.

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Questions this page answers

What is the gender pay gap at Caterpillar in Japan?
Women's average pay as a percentage of men's: 66.6% across all employees, 68.6% among regular employees, 64.3% among non-regular employees. This compares average pay, not pay for the same job.
How many fathers take childcare leave at Caterpillar in Japan?
11.3% 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.