厚生年金(こうせいねんきん)

こうせいねんきん
noun
employees' pension insurance
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1. employees' pension insurance; employees' pension
Japan's public pension scheme for company employees and civil servants. Contributions are taken from salary and shared with the employer, and it pays a pension on top of the basic national pension.
厚生年金(こうせいねんきん)に加入(かにゅう)する。
To join the employees' pension scheme.
給料(きゅうりょう)から厚生年金(こうせいねんきん)が引(ひ)かれている。
Employees' pension contributions are deducted from my salary.
会社(かいしゃ)を辞(や)めてフリーランスになったので、厚生年金(こうせいねんきん)から国民年金(こくみんねんきん)に切(き)り替(か)えた。
I quit my company and became a freelancer, so I switched from the employees' pension to the national pension.

厚生(こうせい) (public welfare) + 年金(ねんきん) (pension). Japan's public pension has two layers: 国民年金(こくみんねんきん), the basic pension everyone from 20 to 59 pays into, and 厚生年金(こうせいねんきん), the extra layer for salaried workers. A salaried worker is enrolled in both automatically.

Common collocations

  • 厚生年金(こうせいねんきん)保険料(ほけんりょう): employees' pension contributions
  • 厚生年金(こうせいねんきん)に加入(かにゅう)する: to be enrolled in the employees' pension
  • 厚生年金(こうせいねんきん)を受(う)け取(と)る: to receive an employees' pension

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Compare: 国民(こくみん)年金(ねんきん) (national pension)
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