Nishitani Miho was very satisfied with the pay and immediately accepted the job.
She would be earning a bit more than at her previous job, especially after taxes. It was considered an average middle-class income.
Most importantly, she would be able to steadily work in confectionery production.
Fujino had expected Nishitani Miho to agree so decisively. For a young girl chasing her dreams, a satisfactory salary plus her ideal job was definitely enough to make her work herself to the bone.
Besides, the salary he offered was indeed a little higher, but considering that once she started, she would be handling both dine-in food and confectionery production—a skilled trade—it was fine if it was a bit higher.
Under ideal circumstances, young Japanese office workers who had graduated from university earned roughly 300,000 yen a month. Bonuses might raise that a little, but not by much. Ordinary workers in Tokyo could earn more than 200,000 yen, but Tokyo's cost of living was equally high. If ordinary people did not live frugally, they probably would not have much left by the end of the month even with over 200,000 yen.
It might seem low, but in more remote areas, salaries in the hundred-thousand-yen range were hardly unheard of.
That was also why Fujino received fewer and fewer commissions.
Back then, commissions of forty or fifty thousand yen, or just over a hundred thousand yen, were still within the means of ordinary people. But five or six hundred thousand yen... one commission could wipe out one or two months' salary for a well-paid office worker, and they would have to prepare to live on dirt for the next few months.
So nowadays, the people who sought him out either had urgent problems or were rich.
In truth, ordinary people's living standards were more