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The statute measures the 15-hour holiday-pay line as a four-week average, and the probation cut is not “up to 10% of pay” but “the hourly minimum wage minus 10 per cent” — a floor of ₩9,288 in 2026.

The ₩200,000 tax-free meal allowance carries a proviso: “limited to a person who is not provided with meals.” Childbirth support, meanwhile, is tax-free in full with no cap, and childcare allowance runs ₩200,000 per child.

Salary rises 4.2 times while net pay rises 3.7. Social insurance is not the cause — income tax is.

We opened the Ministry of Personnel Management's Pay Table 3. Step-1 base pay sits under the monthly minimum wage, and the largest step increase lands between steps 8 and 9.

US full-time median weekly earnings are $1,251 (BLS, Q2 2026) — a median, not an average, and before tax.

Korean law requires severance after 1 year. Enter your dates and salary to estimate it.