The following is an explanation of the salary paid to staff at Kyushu University.

○Salary system

The types of salaries paid to staff are as shown in the table below.

The types of salaries paid to fixed-term staff are as shown in the table below.

The types of salaries paid to part-time staff are as shown in the table below.

The various types of allowances are explained below.

Calculation period and payment dates of salaries are as follows.

○Posts eligible for certain allowances

Allowances paid to staff differ depending on the post of the staff member.
The payment of allowances is as shown in the table below.

• Annual salary scheme faculty are faculty members without a specified employment period, to whom a salary is paid in accordance with the Detailed Regulations on the Application of the Annual Salary Scheme of National University Corporation Kyushu University.
• ● Indicates that an equivalent amount is included in the basic annual salary.
• ◆ Indicates that an equivalent amount is paid as a work-related allowance.
• ▲ Indicates that an equivalent amount is paid as performance -related pay.
• △ Indicates that this is paid only if staffing costs permit this expenditure.
• ◇ Indicates that this is paid as a work-related allowance if staffing costs permit this expenditure.
• Faculty members (annual salary scheme) with a specified employment period, to whom a salary is paid in accordance with the Rules for the Remuneration of Faculty Members (Annual Salary Scheme) of the National University Corporation Kyushu University.
• ■ is paid to physicians and residents only.
• □ is paid to physicians only.
• ▣ is paid to residents only.

○Administrative procedures relating to allowances

Staff members must register and apply for lifestyle subsidy allowances (dependents allowance, housing allowance, commuting allowance, allowance for being transferred without family) Please contact the person in charge of allowance payments in your department to enquire about the application procedure.

＊Dependents allowance

1.Cases in which payment may be made

Staff members who are financially responsible for the care of any of the following people, whose annual income is under 1.3 million yen (monthly income under 108,333 yen), will be paid the designated amount.

• a. Spouse (includes de facto spouse)
• b. Children or grandchildren (limited to the end of the fiscal year after said child reaches the age of 22)
• c. Parents or grandparents (over the age of 60)
  (*If a staff member is financially responsible for parents living independently and is regularly sending money to his/her parents for this reason, and if the money remitted in this way is equal to or more than one third of the total income of said parents (total income being the money remitted from the staff member and/or other family members added to the parents’ own income), such parents can be considered dependents).
• d. Siblings (limited to the end of the fiscal year after said sibling reaches the age of 22)
• e. Persons with severe disabilities
  (limited to those persons whose disabilities are so severe they will never be able to work)
  (*“Total annual income” means salary income, business income, income from real estate, income from pensions (Including individual pensions), and other regular income. It does not indicate the income for a calendar year (January - December), but the total amount of income for a period of a year from the date on which the staff member was employed.(For example, if a dependent began to be employed, or changed employment status (hours worked or hourly salary), from October, their annual income would be calculated as the total earned during the year from October).
  (*Dependents allowance will automatically cease to be paid in respect to children in b. and d. above, reaching the age of 22, at the end of the relevant fiscal year. No notification is required).

The following people, however, cannot be listed as dependents.

• (1) Spouses or siblings of the staff member who are already in receipt of dependents allowances, or an equivalent payment from a private-sector company, etc.

2. Cessation of payments

No payments will be paid during parental leave or while a staff member is suspended.
(No notification is required in these cases).

＊Housing allowance

1.Cases in which payment may be made

Staff members in rented accommodation who meet the following three conditions may receive allowances in relation to their housing costs.
(Staff living in University accommodation are not eligible for this payment).

• Condition 1: The member of staff (or his/her dependent family) must be the person who rented the property
• Condition 2: The member of staff must live in the property he/she has rented
• Condition 3: The member of staff must be paying more than 16,000 yen per month in rent for the property
• (*In addition to the above, members of staff receiving allowance for being transferred without family may receive housing allowance for the property in which his/her spouse is residing).

2. Cessation of payments

No payments will be paid during parental leave or while a staff member is suspended.
(No notification is required in these cases).

＊Commuting allowance

1.Cases in which payment may be made

If a staff member meets both of the following conditions, depending on his/her method of commuting, a fixed payment will be made.

• Condition 1: Minimum distance (one-way) from the staff member’s home to their workplace is 2km
• Condition 2: The staff member commutes on public transport or using his/her own car
• (Payments may not be made in cases where public transport is only used for a short distance).

2. Cessation of payments

If a staff member does not attend his/her workplace for a full month due to a long business trip or period of leave, the allowance will not be paid for that month.

It will not be paid during parental leave, during a sabbatical or while a staff member is suspended.
(No notification is required in these cases).

＊Allowance for being transferred without family

1.Cases in which payment may be made

In cases where a staff member meets all the following conditions, a designated amount will be paid, dependent upon the distance from the residence of the staff member’s spouse to the location of the workplace.

• Condition 1: The move takes place because of a transfer
• Condition 2: The staff member is unavoidably required to live apart from his/her spouse
• Condition 3: The staff member is living alone
• Condition 4: The workplace is far enough away to make commuting from home difficult (60km or more commuting distance)

2. Unavoidable reasons

The following reasons apply to fulfilling conditions 1 and 2 above.

• Reason 1: The staff member or his/her spouse is engaged in caring for a parent or relative living in the same house
• Reason 2: The staff member has a child or children at home, who require continued education at their current school or other educational institution
• Reason 3: Continuation of school attendance
• Reason 4: The staff member’s home requires someone to live in it for maintenance reasons
• Reason 5: Care of a relative (other than the parents of the staff member or his/her spouse) who is living separately to the staff member, but requires care giving due to illness, etc. (only in cases where the staff member’s spouse is the primary caregiver).
• Reason 6:The staff member has a child or children at home who are receiving medical treatment from a designated institution
• Reason 7: The staff member is receiving medical treatment from a designated institution
• Reason 8: The staff member is registered at a school, etc.
• Reason 9: Transferred to the property in order to manage the home (only in cases where the staff member’s spouse, etc., is not available to manage the property)
• Reason 10: Other reason equivalent to 1-9 above.

3. Cessation of payments

The allowance will not be paid during parental leave, during a sabbatical or while a staff member is suspended.
(No notification is required in these cases).