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6 stories tagged “pay”, each from official Korean data with its source and timestamp.
Meritz Securities: top pay, 2.18x gender gap
CEOScore reported nine Korean firms with H1 2026 average pay above ₩100m. We re-pulled the same DART filings and split them by gender — every one has a gap, from 1.31x to 2.18x.
Overtime fell 30% — less strain, or less pay?
Korean regular-worker overtime fell from 11.5 hours a month in 2011 to 8.1 in 2025 — down about 30%. Fewer overtime hours can mean a lighter load or a lighter paycheck, and an hours figure will not tell you which.
The pay ranking everyone shares hides three things
A ranking of Korea's best-paying employers circulates as one number per company. But a single figure buries the distribution, the gap, and the hours behind it. We report distributions, not averages — here is what it leaves out.
In every Korean sector, the biggest companies pay more and keep people longer
Split each sector into its market-cap leaders and the rest: the leaders pay 1.2 to 1.43 times more and mostly retain staff longer. But in heavy industry and finance they employ fewer women at the top. A size split, not a stock pick.
In Korea, the industries that hold their workers longest are mostly the ones that pay them most
Rank 44 listed industries by how long they keep people and by what they pay, and the two line up at 0.67. Long-tenure sectors pay 1.7 times the high-churn ones — but retail keeps people cheaply, and research pays for talent it cannot keep.
In Korea, bigger employers pay more — and the pension data shows it rising at every single step.
Sort 554,570 workplaces by headcount and the national-pension bill per worker climbs monotonically: 291,760 won at the smallest firms, 456,315 at the largest. No band breaks the ladder. The size premium is 1.56x.