Illustration: After closing at a small family-run restaurant, the proprietor divides cash from the business cashbox into three open pay envelopes across a cleared counter. Three employees stand opposite in work aprons, each receiving an envelope with both hands.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

人じん件けん費ひ

jinkenhi

labor costs, personnel expenses

Example sentences

  1. 人件費じんけんひの抑制よくせいで利益率りえきりつが上あがった。

    The profits went up due to the reduction in labor costs.

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  2. セントラルキッチンや寿司握すしにぎりロボットを導入どうにゅうするなどして人件費じんけんひを削減さくげんしている場合ばあいが多おおい。

    Many restaurants introduce a central kitchen system or a robot shaping sushi and so on to lower labor costs.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. そうすると、従来じゅうらいの伝統的方法でんとうてきほうほうよりもはるかに容易よういに、また原材料げんざいりょう・人件費じんけんひなどのコストも無駄むだなく安価あんかに、日本酒にほんしゅを製造せいぞうすることが出来できる。

    Compared with the traditional ways, this method makes it possible to make sake much more easily at lower costs using original materials and labor efficiently.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 人件費

  • 人personOnジン・ニンKunひと
  • 件matter; caseOnケンKunくだん
  • 費expense; costOnヒKunついやす・ついえる

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