Average monthly pay in all industries in 2002 fell 2.4 percent from the previous year to 343,480 yen, the government said in a revised report Monday.
The percentage drop, the largest since comparable data were first taken in 1991, was revised from a 2.3 percent fall reported in a preliminary report released in early February, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said.
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